“Do you think you're well enough to do this job. You don't have to do it. No one's going to think any the less of you if you stay here with me. There's no point being so liberated you make yourself cry all the time. You stay and we'll get everything sorted out. What it is about sex, when we talk while it's happening I get to feel it's like a driving lesson. Left, right, a little faster, carry on, slow down...” SexSecond Wave FeminismMarxist Feminism Book:Cloud 9 Source: Cloud 9
“Unfortunately, when it comes to dominant narratives of capitalism, the discoveries of social reproduction theory have only added more epicycles to the received model, not fundamentally transformed it. The story is still essentially one about the eventual decline of the peasantry, the rise of factories, struggles of brawny wageworkers, and deindustrialization—even if one now adds a few more sections here and there about women. What’s so tragic about this is not only that the story is exclusionary and in many respects wrong, but that feminist scholars have already created the necessary elements for a completely revised, more inclusive, and nuanced history of capitalism.” Social ReproductionMarxist Feminism Author:Salar Mohandesi, Emma Teitelman
“The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.” PhilosophyPoliticsHistoryFeminismRevolutionCommunismMarxismRussian RevolutionMarxist LeninismMarxist Feminism Author:Vladimir Lenin