Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Recommended read -- My Daughter Exists: A Post Mortem

The Union of Workers Welcomes Author Michael Zimmerman for a Second Time:


My Daughter Exists: A Post Mortem

Article by Michal Zimmerman

Edited by David Rowlands



[....] Yola Kipcak writes, "In critiquing one crude philosophy, Queer Theory goes to the other extreme and adopts its mirror image. No phenomenon coincides directly with the general categories by which we know them. No man or woman fits perfectly with the universal category that we know them by. Nevertheless, men and women exist. Nature expresses itself in patterns that we as humans can learn to recognize. Our ideas of a man or a woman, stripped away from all the accidental and inessential attributes, are crucial for our understanding of any individual man or woman. Queer Theorists, like their postmodern brethren, however, deny the existence of any form of category or patterns in nature. Instead of understanding the dialectical relationship between the individual and the universal, they renounce the universal and raise the individual and accidental to the level of principle."


A concept of gender with no material basis is not just cause for philosophical skepticism regarding the category of "women," it dissolves it entirely.


From the dawn of class-divided society, at the point when humankind began to produce surplus goods, the oppression of women commenced, including monogamy for the purpose of securing property rights through inheritance. That women's oppression is rooted in control of the reproduction of humanity is completely thrown overboard by the idealists. This is gross historical revisionism, and is a denial of the material reality of cause for women's oppression today, i.e., their immutable biological reality.


This denial of women's existence is a denial also of women's oppression. The dictatorship of capital sustains itself on the reproduction of exploited labor. The labor that goes into rearing children, in producing laborers, has been performed exclusively by the female sex, working women who are doubly exploited, both by the capitalist class through wage slavery and by society at large by being responsible for the rearing of children and caring for the elderly. The system depends on the latter as much as the former.


And how convenient for the bourgeoisie that gender ideology changes nothing for women in terms of the labor they must provide, while at the same time denying that such laborers and exploitation exist!  [....]


Full:

https://theunionofworkers.wordpress.com/2023/02/28/the-union-of-workers-welcomes-author-michael-zimmerman-for-a-second-time/






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