
MacKinnon on Patriarchy
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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The Marxist Version of Feminism
The marxist version of feminism leaves women at the mercy of what she calls civil society. In the ideal markis theory the state more or less disappears. Society can rule itself. And a society that rules itself, for mc kinnan, is the state of nature. For hobbs, the basic fact about the state ofnature is that any one could kill any one. If you are asleep, when your back is turned, when your guard is down, when you are inattentive, you're never safe. So the hobseon state is created to protect individuals against that basic equality of vulnerability. But if you strip away that state, because you think you've remed
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