Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
It seems that Camille is proposing that feminism and capitalism cannot co-exist. Maybe she is suggesting that the elites in our society gain from the benefits of capitalism while denouncing it. What do you think?
2007-11-30 10:33:01 · 6 answers · asked by MaryCheneysAccessory 6 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I was alive and a undergraduate/graduate student in academia when the Marxist intellectuals were at their height. I remember Richard Lewonton coming to lab in a blue rough cut shirt to show " his solidarity with the working class. " Then driving home in a car that was a great improvement on the Zil. ( crappy Soviet era car ) Camille Paglia is about my age and remembers these posers and hypocrites well. They " talked the talk, but could not really walk the walk. " Unfortunately, they and some of their "running dogs", the post-modernists and relativists still hold too great of influence in social science ( to a lesser extent ) and humanities departments.
Capitalism has its problems and is in need of some amelioration, but it is a free wheeling market, not ideological incoherence.
Paglia is trying to keep feminism in the equality game and out of the ideology business.
2007-11-30 13:22:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
She is referring more towards socialist or Marxist feminists, and individuals who attack the freedoms that they enjoy with capitalism...considering the polar opposite of capitalism, is communism(extreme form of socialism). There really isn't a reason to fight for Rights if you are against capitalism, because No One has any rights in communism(not just women).
I don't see where she made any assumptions that feminism and capitalism can not co-exist. This would be truly silly for her or anyone to say, considering that feminists fight for equal pay, which is purely a battle in a capitalist realm(although we are not extreme capitalist, but a Mixed Economy).
2007-11-30 11:44:18 · answer #2 · answered by Nep 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unbridled capitalism means just as few rights as communism. It also mean fewer opportunities. This is because this type of system relies on a huge permanent underclass to support a privileged few. For those on the bottom, they have few or no opportunities for a better life. This is what exists in most developing countries today. Since the vast majority of the world's poor are women, it's only natural they would not view such a system as favorably as a privileged person who benefits from it.
2007-11-30 12:45:24 · answer #3 · answered by RoVale 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The university elites benefit from capitalism, yet denounce it.
The business elites support it.
Paglia is typical of 'female logic'.
2007-11-30 16:57:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
besides the reality that I agree that the state could stay out of very own affairs, the subject with this assertion is that each and every thing she mentions is evil and has brought about great injury to society. So don't be fooled by the 1st 0.5 of the assertion. apart from sodomy and suicide, i think of legislations could be enacted to guard human beings.
2016-10-09 23:26:03 · answer #5 · answered by clam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think feminism and capitalism can co-exist. Only Marxist feminists want to destroy it. Most just want to reform it.
2007-11-30 13:46:17 · answer #6 · answered by Rio Madeira 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋