Yes Timbomov, yours does look like a smear campaign and inappropriate posting.

And yes the Democrats have failed to pass the ERA.

I am just as anti-Republican as I am anti-Democrat and my posts are clear on that.

Opposing the pro-war sexist Democrat Party does not make me an agent provocateur.

And as for me advocating my views for women's rights from within the context of being a socialist, well I am a socialist and advocating those views is not illegal in this country yet.

Part of how the capitalists rule in this country is by promoting the absurdities of religion, often chalk full of sexist and homophobic hatred. Rightwing talk show hosts and TV evangelists are given all kinds of airtime in the corporate media while the left is completely excluded. The capitalist politicians then also use these prejudices such as against gays and gay marriage and abortion to keep portions of the population down and more easily exploited as well as to keep the people distracted and divided.

Socialists take a clear position in opposition to this monopoly the right has on the media and instead advocate women's rights, BGLT rights, atheism, and socialism.

It took a mass movement outside of the capitalist power structure to win the right to abortion, and this capitalist government has been chipping away from it ever since. In addition the capitalist politicians, bought and paid for by the capitalist class, did not even give women the legal equality of the Equal Rights Amendment. Likewise on gay rights legal equalities like gay marriage and the right to equal employment are also denied, with Clinton’s “don’t ask don’t tell” being an ugly example.

In employment the capitalists profit directly from these inequalities. They get away with paying women less. Likewise all of the divisions they have created make it easier for the capitalists to divide labor and keep us from uniting and fighting effectively in unions as well as on a wider scale in society against the capitalist class. Not only are these divisions themselves harmful, but the minds of those that are poisoned by racism, sexism, and homophobia are incapable of seeing injustice; are usually blind to even their own oppression; and are much more likely to see the entire capitalist system of exploitation, imperialist war, and oppression as justified.

Unfortunately racism, sexism, and homophobia are ideological bulwarks that prop up and sustain the capitalist system and are promoted by the capitalist power structure. As such, it is necessary to sustain a visible and militant struggle for equality with, and at least for some of us in the present we also have, an ultimate goal that includes women's liberation through socialist revolution.

Pass the ERA!

Free Abortion On Demand!

Free The New Jersey Four!