An Activism of One’s Own

I’m right-handed, and I think this was a good essay.

Posted by poopooface on Mar 28, 2005 at 8:07 PM

Richards state ” As soon as someone is successful, he or she is often accused of being too privileged to be radical. I don’t fall prey to that critique anymore because I know from my own experience that I am using what privilege I have to expand resources to others.”

Despite this pious assertion, Richard’s activism is mediated by her current class privilege as much as her historical expereince. As the successful professional, her lifestyle objectively provides her with choices other women simply don’t have. contradiction she remains unable to resolve convincingly.

Posted by marat on Mar 29, 2005 at 1:00 AM

What are you saying marat, that success in this culture is taint? So change from within is not possible? If it’s only the failures that are credible as agents of change, then we’re doomed because the failures are failures and they’ll fail at change too.

Posted by larry jones on Mar 29, 2005 at 6:37 AM

Why are her convictions or abilities questioned? It is interesting that this does not come up very often concerning men, such as Howard Zinn or Noam Chomsky or other male intellectual radicals that have generated wealth thorough their writings.

Posted by hmm on Mar 29, 2005 at 12:10 PM

I wonder how Amy’s son will feel when he realizes he narrowly missed being “reduced” by his mother’s choice.

Posted by J. Edwards on Mar 31, 2005 at 7:25 PM

Would you have wanted your mother to have had more children than she wanted, or could afford, or that was safe for her?

Posted by j.d. on Apr 3, 2005 at 4:17 AM