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58 | Angela Davis: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation (Patreon)

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In this episode we dig into some early writings by the incomparable black radical feminist and communist Angela Davis. We reflect on some of the contradictions involved in the transformation of women’s labor in the development of patriarchal capitalism and the latent potentials for the emancipated life in common that these developments nevertheless carry within themselves. We talk about the radical potential of industrializing housework, discuss strategies for the formation of effective solidarity, and—as usual—find a way to drag American suburbia. Get out there and contest capitalist power at the point of production! Those potentialities won’t actualize themselves, after all.

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References:

Angela Y. Davis, "Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation," in The Black Feminist Reader, eds. Joy James and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Malden: Blackwell, 2000)

Angela Y. Davis, “The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective”, in Women, Race, and Class (New York: Random House, 1983)

Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

Comments

Lee Nelson

Y’all’s discussion reminded me of the book by Ruth Cowan ‘More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave’ Great discussion as always!

Lee Nelson
>>101298548

Whoops, meant to include that Cowan discusses the industrialization that *did happen in the home and the changes to familial divisions of labor which took place therein

eli pine

this rocks so much

Tom Krell

just finished federici's 'patriarchy of the wage,' stoked to think about this stuff further!

Tom Krell

lol finished the episode you guys absolutely MUST read 'patriarchy of the wage' – for a proper genealogy of the 'house wife,' the polemical meaning of the 'wages for housework' movement, and so much more

Adam

the stuff abt the washing machine made me think abt kirstin munro’s work. idk if you know of her but she has a book coming out in march. basically munro thinks a lot of housework is historically contingent expectations (like only wearing clothes once before washing) that everyone should just stop doing

Susan Hecht

Enjoyed the discussion! I was thinking about her perspective during the washing machine discourse because we need to think past existing social relations to imagine how household work could be organized in the future and how the deployment of technology could be way more efficient. As long as laundry is done by individuals, it will probably continue to be “women’s work” within the family—a thankless, endless job. Industrialize housework!

Paul Bowman

Feels like kinda a side issue, but Lilian did request it, so... Why do I associate talk of "reindustrialisation" with reaction? Well, from a development of the forces of production pov it makes about as much sense as "re-peasantification" - the idea that we should increase the % of people working in the primary sector (agriculture, mining, fishing) or in manufacturing is to want to go backwards, to undo capitalist development. The Trumpers are wrong, the good manufacturing jobs did not go to China. Capitalism just abolished them by revolutionising productivity in manufacturing, just as it did before in agriculture. And as it probably soon will also do with the tertiary sector with AI, etc. The industrial revolution has the same outcome as the agricultural revolution - the relative marginalisation of the sector in terms of employment ratio. Reindustrialisation is the nostalgia for a past where there was more employment in the secondary sector - manufacturing. At least that's what it is for the MAGA populists and the Tankie left (assuming we can still tell the difference between the two at this stage). If leftists want to use that language we need to try and make the word mean something 180 degrees around from what everybody else thinks it means - more manufacturing jobs. This is a lost cause