Is every feminist secretly an anarchist?
Feminism is not feminism if it is not antisexist, but also must be:
- Antiracist (for wimmin of color)
- Anticapitalist (for working class wimmin)
- Female+Female love-positive (for lesbians and bisexual wimmin)
- Anti-state (against the state control of wimmin’s autonomy, rejecting patriarchal protection rackets)
- Anti-hierarchy (against wimmin exploiting other wimmin)
I can’t tell you how many wimmin have been turned away from anarchism — the politics of opposing all hierarchy — due to male violence, male abuse, male threats, male testerics. And that is an awful shame, because wimmin have the greatest chance for achieving anarchy.
It’s pretty simple… Forget all your preconceptions about what anarchism is. Forget malestream anarchism with its male fantasies of “let’s kill all the bad people and we will win” because that’s just naive. Men are pretty dumb, let’s be honest. They expect everything to be cleaned up after them. Continue reading “Why you Can’t be a Feminist if you’re Not an Anarchist”
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