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“There is a difference between having your own movement and cutting yourself off politically from all other movements. This last form of feminist isolationism is attractive in its simplicity. It appears to offer an option which implies that you concentrate on your own struggle and wait for some absolute future when men and women have progressed towards equality. It is of course a profoundly liberal utopian notion. ‘Progress’ is seen as some kind of single linear advance towards a goal. There is no sense of a movement living and working in history, learning though a dialectical interaction of its own efforts in objective circumstances. It forgets that the consciousness of particular groups amongst the oppressed is only partial. While this consciousness must be realized and expressed in their own movement, if the attempt is not continually to extend and connect this partial consciousness to the experience of other oppressed groups, it cannot politicize itself in a revolutionary sense. It becomes locked within its own particularism.”

PhilosophyPoliticsWomenConsciousnessClassHistoryFeminismRevolutionLiberalismMarxism
Book:Women, Resistance & Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World
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“In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it's not surprising that this generation of youthful protesters has a different focus for their grievances: the economy, stupid. But notice the targets they've chosen to demonize. It's all about class, not age. It's 1% versus 99%, not young versus old. Occupy Wall Street, not Occupy Leisure World.”

AgeClassEconomyEconomicsLaborAgingEmploymentAmerican DreamUnemploymentPublic PolicyClass StruggleBoomersOccupy Wall StreetAge DifferenceMillenialsOccupyLabor ActivismProtestersBaby Boomers99 Percent1 PercentLaboring ClassWorking Class America
Book:The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
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