salutations

[Red_Oleander]

hello comrades


I decided to sign up and introduce myself after lurking for a few weeks.

A bit about me, I'm female and in my early twenties. I'm very curious about marxism. I'm not too familiar with it but hoping to gain some knowledge here.. I hope I can ask one of you for help if I have questions as I'm sure there'll be a few things I won't understand at first.
I'm also a feminist so let me know of any threads I should check out about marxist views on feminism.

well I guess that's my intro... :redstar:


oh by the way, english is not my first langauge so if I make any grammatical or spelling errors, please forgive me. haha.


Red_Oleander x

[Black Dagger]

Welcome to RL Red_Oleander x :)

May i ask, where are you from? I'm from australia.

[Faceless]

Hello there,
I'm no expert on marxist feminism, although I would like to recommend a book by Engels called "The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State" which is based on the work of a guy called Morgan. From what I can remember, Engels takes the view that it was the division of Labour between men and women; men working fields and so on, and women keeping the household, which lead eventually to men demanding that the women be monogamous so that men could then pass their property (cattle, tools etc.) down to their offspring. As such, Engels traces the origins of the modern family and the oppression of women to property relations.

Even today, people of the bourgeois class can not simply marry whoever they want; they have to take inheritance and status into account. Engels made the point though that the children of the proletariat can marry whoever they want, based upon love, because they have no property and that therefore, it is the proletariat who is destined to create a society where relationships are based upon love and equality. Of course, not all working class people think like that, because the "common sense" morality, the ideology impressed upon the working class, is the morality of the bourgeoisie. Therefore, the task of emancipating woman kind is inseperable from the task of the self-emancipation of the working cass.

Wow, that was a mouthful. In short, check out wiki, google, and that book I recommended :)

[Zero]

An absolutely awesome Eco-Feminist novel is Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, if your into reading fiction novels and that sort of thing.

Welcome, by the way =).