I am rendered speechless by the awesome of that graphic. :D

Did you buy the shirt from TorsoPants? I am becoming more leftist with each day I hear a Republican speak, so I might have bought that shirt if it had been available in red.

damn right, it's better than yours?

so, this has nothing to do with this particular post, but am I missing something with the fantasy football ads appearing on this site? "I'm easy, stripped down, and flexible"? wtf?

I LOVE IT!

Too bad I have no interest in bringing boys to my yard. I propose a lesbian-applicable substitute! Too bad I'm horrid with graphics. I'd be great, though.

Love it!!!!

Well, I have been told by Jessica to stay relevant and on topic, so I would like to see a "Misogynist-Feminist Dialectic" version of that "thing".

By the way, I think the Feministing logo kicks ass on the dialectic thing. I know it has gotten criticized by Liz Funk and such, but the silhouette logo captures this site perfectly. Where Jessica and the rest go wrong is that a middle finger doesn't necessarily stop creeps like me ;)

that might just be my new favorite thing as well!

I was honestly JUST about to order the t-shirt with this graphic from torsopants.com to wear at Montréal pride this year.

I love that thing. I got the shirt a couple months ago, but I figured y'all would've already seen it. I don't know if you have any desire to start a picture thread of readers rocking their feminist tees, but I'll go ahead and volunteer to rock mine:

http://therefore-productions.com/img/alltheboys.jpg

Communism was not the answer, but capitalism is still the disease.

Love democracy but hate politicians? Try anarchy! It's democracy, only without politicians.

There are still people who think Marxism is a good idea? Well, we still have pro-lifers, so I guess there will always be people who believe anything.

That is incredibly awesome. Does anyone know if it is available as a poster?

Didn't Emma Goldman sell out by doing a Carl's Jr. advertisement (i.e. eating a double cheeseburger while seductively perched on top of a Model T)?

The irony of this shirt amuses me, since Marx completely left women out of his discussion on class and society.

Oh Dykonoclast, your comment made my day!

Brady, you're adorable. Your hair looks like mine :D

Marx may not have explicitly addressed women as much as we might have liked, at least not in his more frequently read work, but Freidrich Engels, who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto and collaborated with Marx on many efforts, did in fact address women and their subjugation. A snippet from Engels, "Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State"

"Thus when monogamous marriage first makes its appearance in history, it is not as the reconciliation of man and woman, still less as the highest form of such a reconciliation. Quite the contrary. Monogamous marriage comes on the scene as the subjugation of the one sex by the other; it announces a struggle between the sexes unknown throughout the whole previous prehistoric period. In an old unpublished manuscript, written by Marx and myself in 1846, [The reference here is to the German Ideology, published after Engels’ death – Ed.] I find the words: “The first division of labor is that between man and woman for the propagation of children.” And today I can add: The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male. Monogamous marriage was a great historical step forward; nevertheless, together with slavery and private wealth, it opens the period that has lasted until today in which every step forward is also relatively a step backward, in which prosperity and development for some is won through the misery and frustration of others. It is the cellular form of civilized society, in which the nature of the oppositions and contradictions fully active in that society can be already studied."

I am to understand that torsopants.com is where to buy this thing? (PS that name rules)

Thank you! I need that shirt. Wonder if they have a maternity size? Would be even funnier that way.

Alice - Marxism as a style of government has always been a misnomer; Marx stated in Capital vol 1 that he could not predict a communist form of government because it had not yet existed. Marxism as a philosophy, building from Hegel's dialectics, still exists and is a guilding force in many forms of social theory, especially in sociology, anthropology, and political science. Marxism as a tool of analysis, revealing class structures and the nature of power structures, has had a significant impact upon structuralist and post-structuralist social theories. Much of feminist theory is based upon Marxist dialectics, whether or not this is explicitly acknowledged. Current feminist theory has Marx coming in two directions: from the feminist activism that was, in large part, influenced by the Marxist-communist activism of the late 1800s-early 1900s (Emma Goldman, Mother Jones), and also more recent feminist cultural critics - Butler, hooks, Rich, etc, who draw their Marxism a bit more indirectly from the French structuralists - Foucault, Deleuze, etc.

My Marxist Feminists Dialectics bring my students into a more worldly awareness of the ways in which race, class, gender, etc produce subjects of power relations that are unequal, and those inequalities in society have real impacts upon every aspect of life, from the intagibles of identity and affiliation, to the tangibles of health, life, and death.

Thank you, Alice, for reminding me why I spend half an hour ever semester going over the difference between communism as a political system, and Marxism as a philosophy. I fear my students confuse the two all the time, just as you did here.

Also thanks to Kaylagrrrl for posting some of Engels' writing. I always thought he was much more accessible than Marx himself, and in many ways, more radical. I believe you can find that essay in Tucker's Marx-Engels Reader.