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(Dec 8 2025, 9:15 PM)Elsacat I haven't read the book, and there are aspects of what she describes in the article that I wouldn't especially agree or feel sympathetic toward, such as "The discussion of gender fluidity and trans issues is new but much of what I wrote is compatible with it." Or, probably Marxism in general, although I question how well I understand actual Marxism or Marxist feminism. Probably a good reason to read the book and educate myself.
Woof. If I understand correctly, it sounds like the author is attempting to do a libfemmy pandering or appeasement of TRA stuff in her book about Marxist Feminism?
I'll admit I myself don't know much about Marxist Feminism, but I just looked through RadLeft Unity's knowledge channels and I found these resources that might provide knowledge without a potential smattering of New Age gender woowoo shoehorned into it:
RadLeft Unity marxfem scholars resource, Angela Davis Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
https://legalform.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/davis-women-race-class.pdf
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Synopsis. Women, Race and Class is a collection of 13 essays about the American women's liberation movement from the 1960s up to the point at which the book was published, and also about slavery in the United States. She applies Marxist analysis to the relation of class and race to capitalism in America.
Here are also some resources from the Marxist Feminist section from the types of feminism:
RadLeft Unity, Resources About Marxist Feminism Stella B - Women and Super Exploitation
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"Stella B - Women and Super Exploitation" is a book that explores the phenomenon of super exploitation faced by women in various aspects of their lives. Written by an author named Stella B, the book delves into the systemic oppression and economic inequality experienced by women globally.
The book highlights how women are subjected to exploitation in multiple spheres, including the workplace, domestic settings, and society at large. It addresses the gender pay gap, unequal access to education and healthcare, and the burden of unpaid care work that falls predominantly on women.
Stella B argues that women's labor, both in formal employment and informal sectors, is undervalued and often goes unrecognized. The book delves into the struggles faced by women in low-wage jobs, precarious work arrangements, and the challenges encountered by marginalized communities, such as women of color and immigrant women.
Furthermore, the author sheds light on the intersectionality of oppression, emphasizing how factors like race, class, and sexuality further exacerbate the exploitation faced by women. Stella B examines the systemic barriers that hinder women's progress and advocates for social and economic reforms to rectify these injustices.
Throughout the book, Stella B presents a compelling case for feminist activism and solidarity to challenge the existing power structures and promote equality. By highlighting the various forms of super exploitation faced by women, the author aims to raise awareness and inspire readers to take action towards creating a more equitable society.
RadLeft Unity, Resources About Marxist Feminism The Social Basis of the Woman Question
Quote:The women’s world is divided, just as is the world of men, into two camps; the interests and aspirations of one group of women bring it close to the bourgeois class, while the other group has close connections with the proletariat, and its claims for liberation encompass a full solution to the woman question. Thus although both camps follow the general slogan of the “liberation of women”, their aims and interests are different. Each of the groups unconsciously takes its starting point from the interests of its own class, which gives a specific class colouring to the targets and tasks it sets itself. ...
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1909/social-basis.htm
RadLeft Unity, Resources About Marxist Feminism Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
https://monoskop.org/images/d/d8/Federici_Silvia_Caliban_and_the_Witch_Women_the_Body_and_Primitive_Accumulation_2004.pdf
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Caliban and the Witch explores gender and the family during the primitive accumulation of capital.[1] As part of the radical autonomist feminist Marxist tradition,[citation needed] the book offers a critical alternative to Marx's theory of primitive accumulation.[1] Federici argues that the witch hunts served to restructure family relations and the role of women in order to satisfy society's needs during the rise of capitalism.[2]
In the book's introduction, Federici states that "there has been the desire to rethink the development of capitalism from a feminist viewpoint, while at the same time, avoiding the limits of a "women's history" separated from that of the male part of the working class."[3]
RadLeft Unity, Resources About Marxist Feminism Marxists Internet Archive Library of Feminist Writers
https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/feminists.htm
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Selected writings of feminists of each of the “three waves” of feminist political activity. Intellectual Property laws prevent the Marxists Internet Archive from reproducing the works of most of the major feminist writers of recent decades. However, key chapters and articles have been reproduced for educational purposes only.
RadLeft Unity, Resources About Marxist Feminism The Gender Debate: A Marxist Feminist Perspective
https://web.archive.org/web/20210223214633/https://onthewomanquestion.com/2020/06/19/the-gender-debate-a-marxist-feminist-perspective/
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Misogyny is a product of the systemic form of oppression suffered by females. Whilst Marxist feminists do not wish to reduce women to their reproductive systems and genitalia, it is precisely these aspects of female anatomy which have been exploited and commodified in protocapitalist and capitalist states the world over for millennia. Therefore, within a social, economic and political context, the importance of recognising women as the biological class of female humans cannot be overstated. Women are oppressed under capitalism due to their reproductive value which, by virtue of material biological fact, is disproportionately greater than that of men. It is in the interests of capitalists to control the source of the workforce and women are, quite literally, the source of the next generation of exploitable workers. Since the advent of private property, it has also been in the interest of males to enforce monogamy upon females in order to ensure paternal lineage for the purposes of inheritance.
RadLeft Unity, Resources About Marxist Feminism https://monthlyreview.org/2014/06/01/marx-on-gender-and-the-family-a-summary/
Marx on Gender and the Family: A Summary
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Marx's work contained elements of Victorian ideology, but there is much of interest on gender and the family scattered throughout his work. As early as 1844, in his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Marx argued that women's position in society could be used as a measure of the development of society as a whole.
RadLeft Unity, Resources About Marxist Feminism Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism - Zillah R. Eisenstein
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Fourteen provocative papers on the oppression of women in capitalist countries, along with three articles on the subordinate position of women in two communist countries, Cuba and China. These important, often path-breaking articles are arranged in five basic sections, the titles of which indicate the broad range of issues being considered: Introduction; motherhood, reproduction, and male supremacy; socialist feminist historical analysis; patriarchy in revolutionary society; socialist feminism in the United States. The underlying thrust of the book is toward integrating the central ideas of radical feminist thought with those pivotal for Marxist or socialist class analysis.
RadLeft Unity, Resources About Marxist Feminism Rosa Luxemburg, women's liberation, and Marx's philosophy of revolution - Dunayevskaya, Raya
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In this important and wide-ranging critique of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) Raya Dunayevskaya examines the life, political thought, and action of one of the most critical revolutionary figures of our time. Dunayevskaya sheds new light on the questions of socialist democracy after the revolution, disclosing both the unprobed feminist dimension of Rosa Luxemburg and the previously unrecognized new moments in Marx's last decade concerning the role of women and the peasantry. As the founder of Marxist-Humanism in the United States, Dunayevskaya (1910-87) was an internationally respected writer, philosopher, and revolutionary. This new and expanded edition includes two previously unpublished articles by Dunayevskaya, including her "Challenge to all Post-Marx Marxists."
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