#title The Socialist “Alternative” for Women
#author Fifth Estate Collective
#SORTauthors Fifth Estate Collective;
#date 1988
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/328-spring-1988/the-socialist-alternative-for-women]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2017-08-05
#notes Fifth Estate #328, Spring, 1988



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To the hysterical marxist-leninist cult, the Spartacist League, the above photos from their publication illustrate their view of what is possible for Asian women: “A woman computer technician in Soviet Central Asia [or] an enslaved Afghan woman under the veil.” That’s what History’s implacable railroad of Progress offers, according to socialist politicians: wage slavery to socialist technology shut inside with machines every day or slavery to a religious patriarchy—some choice. Hopefully, there are women and men with a more liberatory vision than that of these two sad choices.