A-Infos (en) Czech, AFED: We need an anti-capitalist feminism (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On the occasion of International Women's Day, we present a chapter from 
the book "Feminism for the 99%" ---- The feminism we mean recognizes 
that it must respond to a crisis of epochal proportions: the decline of 
living standards, the looming threat of ecological disaster, raging wars 
, increasing dispossession, mass migration clashing with barbed wire, 
spreading racism and xenophobia and the loss of hard-won rights - both 
social and political.
We want to face these challenges. Feminism, according to our ideas, 
avoids half-hearted solutions and engages in the fight against the 
capitalist causes of rampant barbarism. It refuses to sacrifice the 
well-being of the many in favor of protecting the freedom of the few, 
and defends the needs and rights of the many-poor women, working-class 
women, migrant women, women whose identities are co-determined by their 
race, queer women, trans* women, women with disabilities, and women , 
who are encouraged to consider themselves "middle class" despite being 
exploited by capital. But that's not all. This feminism is not limited 
to the "women's question" as traditionally defined. It stands up for all 
the exploited, controlled, oppressed and wants to become a source of 
hope for all humanity. That's why we call it feminism for the 99 percent.

Feminism for the 99 percent is inspired by the new wave of women's 
strikes and grows out of practical experience as much as theoretical 
reflection. When neoliberalism transforms gender oppression right before 
our eyes, we see that the only way women and gender non-conforming 
people can gain their rights or realize already enacted rights is 
through the transformation of the basic social system that empties these 
rights. Legal abortions in themselves do not bring much to poor and 
working women, as they have neither the means to pay for them nor access 
to clinics where they are performed. Reproductive justice requires free, 
universal, nonprofit health care and an end to racist and eugenic 
practices in the medical profession. Similarly, for poor and working 
women, equality in pay between women and men is only equality in misery, 
if it does not include work for which they receive decent wages, 
sufficient and practically applied labor rights and a new way of 
organizing household work and providing care. Gender-based violence laws 
are also a cruel joke if they ignore the structural sexism and racism of 
the criminal justice system and fail to address police brutality, mass 
incarceration, threats of deportation, military intervention, and 
workplace harassment or abuse. And finally: legal emancipation is only 
an empty gesture if it does not also include public services, social 
housing and funding that would ensure that women can escape domestic and 
workplace violence.

In these and other ways, feminism for the 99 percent seeks a consistent 
and far-reaching transformation of society. That, in short, is why it 
cannot be a separatist movement. Instead, we propose to join any 
movement that fights for the 99 percent, whether it's fighting for 
environmental justice, free quality education, generous public services, 
affordable housing, labor rights, free universal health care, or a world 
without racism and war. Only by joining such movements will we gain the 
strength and vision needed to dismantle the social relations and 
institutions that oppress us.

Feminism for the 99 percent joins the class struggle and the fight 
against institutional racism. It puts the interests of various women 
from the working class at the center: whether it is racialized women, 
migrant women or white women, whether it is cis, trans* or gender 
non-conforming people, whether it is housewives or sex workers, women 
working for hourly, weekly or monthly salary or unpaid, women unemployed 
or doing precarious work, whether they are young or old women. He is 
staunchly internationalist and therefore adamantly opposed to 
imperialism and war. For the 99 percent, feminism is not only 
anti-neoliberal, but also anti-capitalist.
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The text above is a chapter from the book Feminism for the 99 Percent. A 
manifesto written in 2019 by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and 
Nancy Fraser. In a Czech translation, this manifesto was published by 
the Neklid publishing house in 2020, and since the entire edition had 
already been sold, the publishing house promised a reprint for this 
March. We warmly recommend the book, even though, as our review said, it 
"reflects directly on us an economizing view of the life of the 
individual and society, as we know it from Marxism. After all, even the 
authors consider the one by Marx and Engels from 1848 to be the 
predecessor of their manifesto. And even if a really large part of 
gender violence stems from relations determined by capitalism, as is 
brilliantly described in the manifesto, by the way, the world is 
multi-layered after all, and anarchists they would certainly object to 
it by their examination of unnatural authorities.'
* * *
And if you can, support one of today's actions as part of the radical 
message of International Women's Day. We recommend, for example, those 
in Pilsen or Olomouc.

https://www.afed.cz/text/8127/potrebujeme-antikapitalisticky-feminismus
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