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MacKinnon on Patriarchy

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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The State Is Not Legitimate Violence

McKinnon says neither liberal nor marxist version of feminism does anything to address the underlying problem. "Without a state, women are at the mercy of their state of nature," she writes. The primary fact is that men kill women; it's not the case that any one could kill any one. Society structured on that inequality, without a state, leaves women at the mercyof their state ofNature.

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