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Women's equality will never come about through the politicians and their schemes like the ERA. Even if their intentions were good, the capitalist system exists by exploiting people (including women) as much as it can. It promotes male chauvinism (and racism) which keep people divided, as well as actually paying women less, forcing them into "last hired, first fired" positions...
Their philosophical goal, as Bell makes clear in his book, is the separation of the capitalist system of production, which the group thoroughly endorses, from the liberal theory of politics and economics--a theory which postulates absolute freedom [sic!] and the pursuit of each individual 'unit's' self-interest...
...know whether "the group" thoroughly endorses the capitalist system, no vote was ever taken; but if anything it is clear, it is that Mr. Kaplan has not read my book and the only thing I can do is to present the relevant quotations and ask Mr. Kaplan to read this again--and slowly...
Peter Roche, a white British capitalist, has been on this island long enough to see that the facile distinctions between blacks and whites and easy judgments about imperialism and shamytowns are false ones. When you use such terms, he cautions a white arrival, you begin to think only in "comic strips," without saying anything. Gross appearances are much too deceiving, he suggests, as the truth lies in the welter of relations and facts belied by appearances...
...transformed, or "chewed up," as the whites say, first into the "rotten meat" of miscegenation, then the "bloody meat" of retribution. But if revolutionaries are depraved charlatans, imperialists are incompetent almoners, and revolutions are fitful little altercations, what is Naipaul saying about legitimate struggles for independence from imperialistic, capitalist nations? His focus on the personal problems of his actors--his obsession with Roche's attitude toward authority and Jimmy's sexuality--might be misconstrued as a reactionary response to the larger issues, and an effort to obscure his vision in tiny problems...