Her apparent radicalism appeals to some women, acutely aware of the shortcomings OT the male but as unsure Campbell appears to be, of the main enemy. Is tne probien oppressor, or man as the agent of oppression? The confusion sewn by her conflation of radical with socialist feminist ideas produces pessimistic and reformist project. If she succeeds it will confuse and derail the women's movement, which is at last making real galls despite the Thatcher government: and it will be our undoing.
She gets away with these deliberately unclear and confusing Decause or tue lack or any developed tradition of Marxist theory in Britain, eltner in the labour movement or among feminists. Her speeches, her feminist demagogy, her City Limits, Marxism Today ironic name if ever there was one), and ner Dooks, all try to win over those women who, theoretical framework, cannot spot me laws and lan to recognise tne similarities of her apparent radicalism Hobshawm's evidence of the forces.
as Bea man as the temporary, chapter on the telling, systematic for politics.
Attacks
the unions, NUM, the romantic, ideas, recently, of any political or historical analysis. articles in (an lacking She attacks the masculinity of the male myth of their invincibility, the lack, until very commitment to the transformation of the conditions of work of the women in ine mining -all this without any She names, but doesn't explain. the compromise between coto g labour which underlies labourisen, she ignores completely Britain's imperiat ist past that produced and paid for the compromise, she fulminates against but gives us no way of overcoming the sexist and often racist character of the British labour movement. Indeed. she
Socialist Action 22 June 1984