This small essay by Janine Brodie called “Power and Politics” has several other issues, but their most frustrating one is their outright DISMISSAL of Marxist class analysis for the stupidest reasons. Economic determinism? I guess if you yearned to softly dismiss marx by misrepresenting him.
God I fucking hate poli sci majors.
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I’m not the brightest crayon in the box but is it just me or does Doctor Brodie somehow make politics and power some sort of vague, unsolvable mystery? Like fr I don’t want just an echochamber of nodding heads plz help am I in the wrong?
I need help putting words to my issues with it.
Sure but tbh they didn’t go into it in great detail as they did with capitalism or to the extent that later gender theorists did.
I guess? Gender relationships crop up all through Marx and Engels work, in many cases, substantial time is taken to understand the nature of these relations. Marx doesn’t go into gender theory because gender theory wasn’t really even a thing at the time, and wouldn’t be until developed later by students of Marxist social theory, though then thrown to the cobbles by Stalin (one of his real big fuck-ups).
stalin did not throw gender to ‘the cobbles’. Inflammatory language aside, He was mostly concerned with the National Question and Soviet Economic development.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/subject/women/cccp.htm
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/subject/women/jauccf.htm
His referenced works in the marxists internet archive do not seem to whitewash the role of women in the revolution. If that isn’t enough, Women in the USSR under his tenure also experienced massive economic and political emancipation.
Lenin liberated women, stalin followed. there were some reactionary steps back, but such is usually true in all socialist countries in order to maintain stability and popularity.
Thanks for the reading materials I will follow up on it!