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On this view, rather than revolutionary harbingers of a brave new world of gender equality, feminists, their revolutionary self-image notwithstanding, were little more than 'useful idiots' unwittingly serving the interests of their own (and their husbands) capitalist oppressors. Feminism is thus a form of what Marxists typically term ‘false consciousness’. | On this view, rather than revolutionary harbingers of a brave new world of gender equality, feminists, their revolutionary self-image notwithstanding, were little more than 'useful idiots' unwittingly serving the interests of their own (and their husbands) capitalist oppressors. Feminism is thus a form of what Marxists typically term ‘false consciousness’. | ||
References | ===Solutions to our modern predicament=== | ||
The book insinuates that meritocracy in a post-capitalist society would end bartering for sex in favor some some amorphous direct affection. Here, in proposing solutions to crude sexual dynamics, we see a flaw in Marxist theory, namely its materialist focus. It does not see social status and social hierarchy as a means of crude barter for sex (after all any non-capitalist hierarchy must be just right? /sarcasm), nor does it seem to acknowledge the possibility of social status being a barter for sex at all. | |||
===References==== | |||
Bateman, A.J. (1948), "Intra-sexual selection in Drosophila", Heredity, 2 (Pt. 3): 349–368 | Bateman, A.J. (1948), "Intra-sexual selection in Drosophila", Heredity, 2 (Pt. 3): 349–368 | ||