Free pdf of Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto!
Free pdf of Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto!
Found this one on the 4B subreddit, where they're apparently also building a feminist library. It's an edition from The Olympia Press with an introduction by Vivian Gornick.
https://editions-ismael.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1968-Valerie-Solanas-S.C.U.M.-Manifesto.pdf
Thanks for the handy PDF, Magpie!
Fun fact: the Korean Womad site I sometimes reference around here (here's their small English-language board) actually derives the core elements of their worldview from the SCUM Manifesto. They're specifically a misandrist group that's dedicated to bringing a utopian matriarchal future comparable to the one of Valerie Solanas's imagining into being. By that I DON'T mean that they are simply female separatists, I mean that they favor, and politically agitate for, realizing a female-only world. They call it "Botopia", which in English means "Vulvatopia". They've expanded on Solanas's premise that men are biologically inferior to women considerably with the aid of modern evolutionary science and very much believe in a future that involves birthing only girls with artificial wombs.
On the flip side, black pill type feminism also takes inspiration directly from Solanas. It's likewise built on a foundation of biological realism and female superiority. The difference between the black pill version of misandry and Womad's is that the Womad women are utopian optimists while black pill type feminists are pessimists who don't share Solanas's positivity about automation. They're doomers. (Here's a glimpse of what the Black Pill Feminism subreddit used to look like back in its heyday when I frequented, before it got banned.) My own outlook kind of leans in this direction, btw. I count myself a pessimistic champion of voluntary human extinction.