Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 00:40:42 -0500
Subject: M-G: Aldolfo's Stalinism and Feminism!


Joshie writes;
>Her fear points to the climate of straight male cliquishness that has been
>rigidifying Marxism into a "straight guys' identity politics." We can't
>even raise this sort of question without being subjected to an outburst of
>"bourgeois feminist baiting" from the likes of Adolfo. NO WONDER there are
>so few women on this list. NO WONDER intelligent women like Teresa Ebert
>would not stay on this list.

Actually I have been thinking about writting and addressing Aldolfo's 
"bougeois feminist" crap vs his Stalinist prolo crap. Unfortunately I have 
been working almost around the clock these days with a big cross country ski 
race. However the race was yesterday and I hopefully have a little more time 
now.

I do not think that Joshie or any other woman on this list need to fear 
Aldolfo and his whining. because of  his Stalinist Prolo line which is in 
fact the reverse side of feminism and just about as dead wrong.

Feminism I characterize in the sense that the feminist analisises society 
out of a perspective of gender rather then class. Aldolfo analisises his 
Stalinist Prolo line in the sense that anybody who attacks the rotten 
political line of the PCP attacks the peasants and proletariat! Thus anybody 
that critizes the "great" leader is our enemy.
Just as the feminist say anybody who critizes us is the enemy!

The truth is I think that the future revolutionary International must be 
made up of both declassed and desexed cadre who put and analisis of fighting 
for and building proletarian dictatorships everywhere as the transitional 
stage which can actually change things for the better in marching towards a 
communist society.

The point being that the Proletariat led by a revolutionary party is the 
only *real* social force that can actually bring about real change for 
workers,peasants the urban poor and in this case women who make up about 50% 
of the population of both the working class, the peasantry, and the urban poor. 

Aldolfo's arguements are in fact dead wrong because he has the Stalinist 
Prolo line which when politically cornered leans not on leading the working 
class forward to liberation and a communist society by breaking the 
generations of bourgeois chains set on them by society. But exactly the 
opposite. Aldolfo leans on the most backward bougeois sexist, and macho 
world based on the family in order to enforce his and the PCP ideas of politics.

All the god worshipping, and the masses shit is used as a stick to beat on 
the heads of the political opposition and if neccessary put them against the 
wall.

For Bolsheviks the world is and entirely different situation. We realize 
that centuries of bougeois society and repression connect to the age old 
rules of institutions like the church, family etc. will not dissappear over 
night! But the goal is to understand the process that is going on and 
linking it to a political program that will move things in the right direction.

The Stalinists use both sex and class in order to move things in the 
direction of the particular line they are following. In Aldolfo's case it is 
the "Red Front" period of Stalinism. In others it is the popular front and 
class colloration on all levels. Both of these Stalinist lines are dictated 
by a party who hardly sees itself as the vanguard of the Proletariat. But a 
elitist click who will use poor and working class people more as a mob to 
push the present political line of the present "great leader". 

If Stalin was the first master of this line. Then the various Stalinists 
Chinese Stalinists make a good second. Whether they be the "gang of four" or 
the present leadership of the now dead Deng..

So I think that if their are any feminists out their please throw some of 
your stuff out. I personally would find it refreshing compared to the back 
side of the mirror we have been getting for weeks now from Aldolfo. 

Finally, I do not think that the present trend on the left of capitulating 
to the feminists is correct. I think a firm struggle and winning the most 
militant women to a program of communist work amongst women could be a way 
forward. I have no tears for the feminists and especially so called 
"Socialist" feminists. However I do have the greatest sympathie for working 
class women in the public sector , the cleaning ladies. And when we have a 
women,s communist organisation internationally which can devote its time and 
efforts to organising these women and struggling along side their class 
brothers for the dictatorship of the proletariat everywhere, then things can 
really become interesting.

But if the feminist continue along their merry little path it can only lead 
to a dead end. Just as the mirror reflection of these politics represented 
by the Stalinists has already led to a dead end. Good examples being the 
former Soviet Union and China..

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki



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