But I’ve found that I’ve done more theory reading than most leftist women I know, like a lot of them are very well read and can talk deeply about feminist theory, but in terms of broad economic and political theory, they’ve usually read much less.
Why is this?
Why do we restrict ourselves to reading and writing about gender? Surely our class position must also affect our lives, and yet we have internalized the idea that we should leave that one to the men? Why do we not write on the topic of organization like Malatesta or even Lenin (who was wrong and a dick, but he did write about how to create political organization)? Why do we not write on the economic order of society like Marx? Or the possible order of society like Kropotkin?
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 