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Frigga Haug — Thirteen Theses of Marxism-Feminism

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Didn't know that Marx was a feminist? Then you don't know about his wife, Jenny von Westphalen Marx. She was an aristocrat become social and political activist. Jacobin has the story of her life. ... we are in union with Marx, “to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, forsaken, despicable being”.... The German term Marx uses that is translated "man" here is Menschen. While it is correct to translate Menschen as "man" in the generic, non-gender specific sense, the German term means "human being" without specifying gender.These are hardly "radical" proposals, as sopme would like picture all feminists, Marxist and otherwise.They also indicate that Marx was very much a libertarian* and anarchist* who was concerned with gender issues as well as class issues as

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Didn't know that Marx was a feminist? Then you don't know about his wife, Jenny von Westphalen Marx. She was an aristocrat become social and political activist. Jacobin has the story of her life.
... we are in union with Marx, “to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, forsaken, despicable being”....
The German term Marx uses that is translated "man" here is Menschen. While it is correct to translate Menschen as "man" in the generic, non-gender specific sense, the German term means "human being" without specifying gender.

These are hardly "radical" proposals, as sopme would like picture all feminists, Marxist and otherwise.

They also indicate that Marx was very much a libertarian* and anarchist* who was concerned with gender issues as well as class issues as sociological phenomena that need to be addressed by political activists. Marx himself was only peripherally an economist. He was a philosopher that would have become an academic if times had been different, a free-lance journalist by profession, an independent thinker, and a political activist that was also married to a political activist.

* Of course, Marx was not a Libertarian (anarcho-capitalist) in the American sense.

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