Socialist Feminism

Class: The Power That Heals

April 2023

Celebrating the centennial birthday of the late FSP co-founder Clara Fraser this year, we reprint her hope-inspiring 1994 tribute to solidarity.

Convención del FSP

February 2023

Trazando un curso revolucionario a medida que se agudiza la lucha de clases

DSAers mock Trotsky’s murder

August 2021

Democratic Socialists of America leaders tweet “jokes” about Trotsky’s assassination, but violence against leftists is no laughing matter.

The Mismeasure of Men: A Socialist Feminist Analysis of “Male Aggression”

Summer/Autumn 1990

Men are not naturally aggressive. Biology is the destiny of neither women nor men. The ideology that measures people with the yardstick of determinism, which reduces people to either animals or robots, is both insulting and arrogant; it complements the current system of wage slavery well.

Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse, New York, Free Press (1988). 326 pages.

Summer/Autumn 1990

Dworkin offers no hope for women. She identifies “contextual reforms” and political programs, only to dismiss them as off-base and futile. So, she indiscriminately lumps together demands for economic equity or rape laws that work with calls for electing women to political office and athletic excellence, condemning them all for failing to “address the question of whether intercourse itself can be an expression of sexual equality.”