Is our Socialism “Feminist?”
By Jessie Blanco
The debate led by our President that has recently opened in our country, propelled by the changes at the level of discourse and in reality, concerns the social system - 21st Century Socialism - that is taking shape in Venezuela. [1] This rising system already shows signs, if we do not do something about it, that are very similar to those exhibited by the old socialisms that perished more from internal than external causes, through insidious practices that originated in the imperialist colossus.
For feminists of the anti-capitalist left, the basic contradiction in supporting the president, in the proposed process of revolution that he represents and leads, arises from the need to differentiate ourselves, in the first place from patriarchal practice and the logic of domination which this implies, deriving its strength from the power centred in a single person – all the more so if this is a masculine figure, who represents the androcentric and heteronormative world [2] which so many of us have fought.
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