In 1972 Selma James set out a new political perspective. Her starting
point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on
the land, were not seen as “workers” and their struggles viewed as
outside of the class struggle. Based on her political training in the
Johnson-Forest Tendency, founded by her late husband C.L.R. James, on
movement experience South and North, and on a respectful study of Marx,
she redefined the working class to include sectors previously dismissed
as “marginal.”
For James, the class struggle presents itself as
the conflict between the reproduction and survival of the human race,
and the domination of the market with its exploitation, wars, and
ecological devastation. She sums up her strategy for change as “Invest
in Caring not Killing.”
This selection, spanning six decades,
traces the development of this perspective in the course of building an
international campaigning network. It includes excerpts from the classic
The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community which
launched the “domestic labor debate,” the exciting “Hookers in the House
of the Lord” which describes a church occupation by sex workers, an
incisive review of the C.L.R. James masterpiece The Black Jacobins,
a reappraisal of the novels of Jean Rhys and of the leadership of
Julius Nyerere, the groundbreaking “Marx and Feminism,” and more.
The writing is lucid and without jargon. The ideas, never abstract,
spring from the experience of organising, from trying to make sense of
the successes and the setbacks, and from the need to find a way forward.
Sex, Race And Class - The Perspective Of Winning : A Selection of Writings 1952-2011 - Selma James
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