OK, so the Stalinists were male chauvinists. Now what follows from that?
At 09:53 AM 10/16/2006 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
>From Pen-L: Yoshie F. wrote: I remain a partisan of socialism, but there is one thing that makes me doubt the excellence of socialism: virtual absence of women leaders in hitherto existing socialist states and movements. Rich social democratic states (Finland, Germany, Norway) have had female heads of state, rich liberal states (UK, New Zealand) have had female heads of states, post-socialist Eastern European states have had a female head of state (Ukraine), Israel has had a female head of state, Asian (India, the Philippines) and Muslim (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan) states have had female heads of state, African (Liberia, Mozambique), Caribbean (Jamaica), and Latin American (Argentina, Chile) states have had female heads of state. I'm not saying anything about these women's politics -- I'm just pointing out that there have been quite a few by now in capitalists states at all levels of economic development, with all kinds of political orientations, and under all sorts of cultural conditions. The only female head of state in the hitherto existing history of socialism is Milka Planinc (Federal Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986), plus Ana Pauker of Romania, the most powerful leader of the Romanian Communist Party after WW2 till 1952, when she got purged. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org <http://mrzine.org/> > <http://monthlyreview.org/>
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