Refusing to wait: Anarchism and intersectionality

Anarchism can learn a lot from the feminist movement. In many respects it already has. Anarcha-feminists have developed analyses of patriarchy that link it to the state form. We have learned that no revolutionary project can be complete while men systematically dominate and exploit women

that socialism is a rather empty goal if men's domination of women is left intact. This essay argues that anarchists can likewise learn from the theory of "intersectionality" that emerged from the feminist movement. Indeed, anarchist conceptions of class struggle have widened as a result of the rise of feminist movements, civil rights movements, gay and lesbian liberation movements, etc. But how do we position ourselves regarding those struggles? What is their relationship to the class struggle? Do we dismiss them as "mere identity politics"?

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Why Intersectionality? How we Got Here -- Competing Visions in the "Second Wave" -- Intersections -- And What Can Anarchism Provide the Theory of Intersectionality? -- Refusing to Wait

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