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Article: The goddess that failed. (marxism and feminism) (Cover Story)
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- National Review
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- November 18, 1991
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RADICAL feminism comes from the same stable as Marxism: it is an ideology revealing the secret of the world. That secret is that our apparent freedom masks the fact that we are dominated by an oppressive system which invades every corner of our lives. The famous doctrine that the personal is the political is one formula expressing this secret. Once it has been revealed, there's only one thing to do: struggle against the evil system and liberate mankind.
Feminism tends to accept from Marxism an overarching understanding of capitalism as the basic form of oppression, but it has its own names for the evil system: "patriarchy" or "phallocentrism." Like Marxism ...