Women produce and reproduce capitalism in varying degrees depending on their relation to the means of production but capitalism cannot function without women of all classes. In other words, the oppression and exploitation of women in the marketplace, in the home, or in the public sphere more generally is not just about the mistreatment of women or the exploitation of women it is central to the functioning of capitalism. However, that is a false and unhelpful way to understand the oppression of women or, for that matter, the oppression of anyone. For much of the history of socialism, the oppression of women has been viewed as a distinct reality that primarily defines the condition of women living in capitalist society. The oppression of women is both intertwined with capitalism and has acquired a reality that transcends it. The oppression of women did not begin with capitalism nor will it automatically end with the construction of socialism. Closely related to this discussion is: Which women are we talking about? All women? Or just working-class women? Has anyone ever heard it referred to as “the proletariat question”? One of the thorny realities that Marxists have debated is the relationship between women’s oppression and capitalism and the concomitant connection between the liberation of women and the construction of socialism. Margaret Power: The organizers presented us with some very challenging questions, but, we have already agreed amongst ourselves that we will like and applaud what we all say.Įarly socialists (and even some later ones) referred to the oppression of women as “the woman question.” This ontological and discursive framing suggests that the oppression of women exists in isolation from men and is somehow independent from and less important than the more general question of class struggle and revolution.
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The full audio recording of the event can be found online at. What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation. On November 4, 2015, the Loyola University Chicago chapter of the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion entitled “Women: The Longest Revolution?” The panelists were Margaret Power, professor of History at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the author or editor of several books on Latin American history and the political right Brit Schulte, a grassroots organizer, founding editor of Red Wedge magazine, and current graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Yasmin Nair, a Chicago-based writer, academic, and activist in Chicago, co-founder of the Against Equality editorial collective, and volunteer policy director of Gender JUST. Margaret Power, Brit Schulte, Yasmin Nair