By Sharon Smith

Thirty years have handed because the heyday of the women’s liberation fight, but ladies stay second-class voters. Feminism has shifted gradually rightward because the Sixties. This choice of essays examines those matters from a Marxist viewpoint, badly wanted today.

Women and Socialism locates the resource of women’s oppression at school society, arguing that just a circulate integrating the struggle for women’s liberation with a fight opposed to a method that places revenue above human wishes can finish women’s oppression—along with all different kinds of inequality.

Sharon Smith is the writer of many articles on women’s liberation and the U.S. operating type. Her writings look frequently in Socialist Worker newspaper and the International Socialist Review.

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He fou n d his inspirati on for criticism in an article by Engels, 'O utlines of a Critique of Political Economy ' , written in the autumn of 1 843 , and sent to Marx to be p ublished in the jo ur nal he was then setting up in Paris , the German-French Yearbook. However, Engels's critique was more or less exclusively politi­ cal - he described p olitical economy as 'an entire science of C R I T I Q U E O F P O L I T I C A L E C O N O M Y: A L I E N AT I O N 49 enrichment' (MECW 3, 4 1 8) and it was little more than a schema in form.

Marx began his critique with the alienation of the product because it is the one most obvi­ ously connected to private property - the worker does not own the product. It is also the one that most directly corres­ ponds to the structure of Hegel's account of objectification. But it is not the most significant, either existentially or theo­ retically. The second feature of alienated labour is the alienation of the activity, which is more basic than the alien­ ation of the product: after all, 'the p ro duct is simply the summary of the activity' .

This is especially true of the special type of individuality associated with fragments, whereby thoughts with a universal scope ('All so cial life . . All mysteries . . ) are reduced to crys­ talline, gnomic propositions (' . . is essentially practical . . find their rational solution in . ') . Such sentences move productively, but enigmatically, between the closed whole­ ness of an image, produ ced by their brevity - they can be apprehended in a glance - and the open infinity of their meaning.

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