Re: Women, Religion, and Secular Leftists (was Rabbi Lerner’s address on TV!)
On Dec 6, 2006, at 6:38 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On the secular Left, too, it is mainly men who do the talking.
I feel like I’ve stepped into a time tunnel. That people live in
dimensions other than their class position, that religion counts for
a lot, the men dis women constantly, that male political
intellectuals have not taken feminism seriously, that consciousness
is often at odds with material position, all in ways that Marxists
have insufficiently appreciated - well, people (some of them Marxists
even) have been writing and talking about that for decades. Which
isn’t to say any of this is unimportant - but you sound as if you’re
discovering this for the first time, or revealing it to an audience
that’s never heard it all before. A little acknowledgment that many
have gone before you in these discoveries might be apt.
Doug