Division of labor: The social division of labor is the separation of the labor process into different tasks and spheres of work in the production of things, not only on a personal-biological level but on a broader social level. The initial spontaneous division of labor was natural, based on the division of labor between in […]
Women were the first oppressed social group in human society, and planet-wide woman remains the “slave of a slave” and faces the greatest societal violence, murder, repression, insults and humiliations in every country. A determined, immediate and continuous struggle against material privilege, war and violence is not only morally correct but a precondition for the […]
Mother-right described stable ancient communities with an established and prescribed pattern of observance of societal roles in which there were no classes, no inequality and no uncompensated, exploited labor. Mother-right was a pattern of family life based on the natural division of labor. It held sway until the breakup of the primitive communal system and […]
Male supremacy is built into the architecture of bourgeois productive relations. It justifies the domination of men over women, and is a weapon the capitalists use to pay women less and reap billions of dollars in profit from their super-exploitation. The origin of male supremacy coincided with the initial creation of private property, the division […]
Women Potters Tending Fire By proletariat, [is meant] the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor-power in order to live. [Engels, 1888 English edition](Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, 1848.) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its […]
The social position of women and the proposed resolution to their historic inequality is called the woman question by the Marxist movement. The role of women in society, as is the case with all classes, exploited and oppressed groups, is first and foremost an expression of inequality rooted in private property relations. Before the rise […]
WOMEN AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION In the age of robotics, women and children have been reduced to commodities, as never before. Under The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 2010 (CAPTA) and the cynically named Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), children are treated as commodities, with states and corporations reaping huge financial bonuses for breaking up […]
In a major political struggle in California the interests of women and ethnic minorities were placed in opposition to each other. A lenient judge was recalled and will be replaced with a prosecutor. What happened? To understand this, you must understand the problem of mass incarceration and how it works in court. Reading Michele Alexander’s […]