At a pro-revolutionary summer camp last August and a subsequent meeting we were confronted with a kind of feminist ideology which, in our view, is a real obstacle to free discussion. We think a debate on feminism is necessary. The following text is an in-depth contribution to it. It is a slightly abridged translation of an essay by the Argentina-based group Cuadernos de Negación. It is part of its issue # 15, which is entirely dedicated to issues surrounding sex and gender. The original text can be found HERE.
P.S. After we published this text, the OC (Organizing Committee) of that summer camp told IP that we were no longer welcome at the camp this year.
A CRITIQUE OF FEMINISM AS IDEOLOGY
Feminism is inevitable, not because of a sudden widespread awakening of consciousness, but because of the increasing prominence of women in the workplace, as well as in the academic, political, and legal spheres. That is, it gains astonishing momentum at a particular moment in the history of capitalist society, based on new working and living conditions that particularly affected women, and the struggles that arose in response over decades. These struggles were both reformist and disruptive, even revolutionary.
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