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Gloria Steinem lived to see a powerful backlash against her vision of feminism (apnews.com)
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It was the fight for abortion rights that launched Gloria Steinem into feminism.

The idea that women couldn’t reach equality without the ability to decide whether or when to have children was central to the feminist movement of the late 1960s, which Steinem came to embody until her death at age 92 on Wednesday.

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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

So what happens to feminism when capitalism doesn't need to employ so many people?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Second wave feminism will finally hopefully dissolve back into the feminism of power instead of the feminism of privilege. The feminism of power is anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist class struggle. Feminists will maintain their common cause with the working class and participate in the revolutionary overthrow and dismantling of capitalism and the development of a revolutionary society that actively works to repair the harm of millennia of patriarchy. It will be a very very long project because it will be redressing a very very long history and the impacts of that are deeply layered on its own, but made maddeningly more complex by intersectional oppression. A revolutionary state without feminism will not achieve its ultimate end of universal liberation

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