Melero: Without Socialism, There Can be No True Feminism

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Melero: Without Socialism, There Can be No True Feminism
Znet Article, March, 27 2012 Meglimar Melero

http://www.zcommunications.org/without-socialism-there-can-be-no-true-feminism-by-meglimar-melero

An interview with feminist activist Meglimar Melero from the Insumisas Collective and the Feminist Spider network discussing the feminist movement in Venezuela today

"What would you say to the feminists in other countries who criticize Venezuelan feminism for being too class orientated, as opposed to focusing on issues specific to women?

MM: I think it’s really about carrying out a historic revision of feminism. What has happened to feminism as a global movement?

I think that women from other places in the world, especially the West, should reflect at length about what has happened to the Marxist-feminist proposal, socialist-feminism; what has happened to those proposals in their respective countries? Because let’s say that we have had some currents which have broken away and have stayed within the arena of simply making liberal demands. They don’t organize towards the transformation or the surmounting of exploitation or the patriarchy, viewed as the complimentary functional system to capitalism.

Feminism has suffered from, just like the global left, ideological deviations that can’t be hidden. I think, what we are trying to do in Venezuela is to recover all of that material and those feminist proposals, Marxist-feminism with class consciousness. Because without feminism, socialism can’t exist, and without socialism, true feminism cannot exist."......

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1. Capitalism definitely sucks for women, especially in a crisis like we are having.

Every week there is a new article of the rancid state women are in from poverty and austerity. I have also started to believe that the right-wing backlash on our rights has something to do with this too, though I haven't really figured out why yet. It can't be a coincidence though.