This is the latest in a series of essays. Please read also:

A MODEST PROPOSAL CONCERNING MASCULISM  http://www.nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25801
TEN THOUSAND YEARS IS ENOUGH!
 http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=13070&group=webcast
THE MOVEMENT FOR MALE RESTRAINT
 http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=13624&group=webcast
HOW TO CHALLENGE VIOLENT MALE DOMINATION
 http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=14156&group=webcast
A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF VIOLENT MALE DOMINATION
 http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=14726
THE PROBLEM OF MALE OBEDIENCE
 http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20208&group=webcast
WOMAN'S GREATEST FEAR
 http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=22453&group=webcast
FREDERICK ENGELS AND MALE VIOLENCE
 http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25102&group=webcast
INTERVIEW WITH emma goldwoman
 http://www.portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=35304&group=webcast
RESPONS TO MY CRITICS
 http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=36278&group=webcast
WOMEN (AND MEN) OF THE WORLD, UNITE!!
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/03/47034.shtml





The Labor Theory of Female Value
By emma goldwoman

Iraq Attack III is over (Iraq Attack I: Gulf War in 1991; Iraq Attack II: Twelve Years of Destructive Sanctions). Military occupation is underway. Iran Attack II (Iran Attack I: The CIA directed coup in 1953) looms on the Buscista (Bush style Fascism) horizon. The big ocean fish have almost died off. Kids are imprisoned in a death camp in Guantanamo Bay. The trade in sex slaves thrives. The United Nations proves again that it is the handyman of Mass Murder, as it prostrates itself at the feet of the War God whispering the prayer ‘Might Makes Right! Greed is Good!’.

Things will not get better unless we act. Now. Now is the time for a new paradigm of social change. A guide for action, for a movement. A theoretical understanding and a goal to move towards.

I suggest basing the new paradigm on two basic theories:

1: The Labor Theory of Female Value
2: The Conflict Theory of Organized Male Violence

Our new goal should be this: A society where all conflict is resolved through communication rather than through Organized Male Violence (war and the legal system).

Socialism and Anarchism and their less radical cousins Social Democracy and the Welfare State have failed. Why? Because they are essentially based upon Marx’s Labor Theory of Value: Labor is the ultimate creator of value, thus laborers are exploited when the product of their labor is taken from them by the Opressive Classes. Property is Theft.

In contrast, the Labor Theory of Female Value views Female Labor, specifically the labor of pregnancy and birth and childcare, as the source of all other value. Productive workers must be produced. Women are the productive source of all human beings, the primary producers.

We can imagine that for ten of thousands of years this fact formed the basis of a stable egalitarian human society. Men and Women worshipped the Great Mother, Nature, and her human representative, Woman.

With the rise of civilization and the development of the class system women became, as a group, the lowest oppressed class. They have remained there for 10,000 years, the essential slaves of all economic orders, Slavery, Feudalism, Capitalism. The product of their labor, their children, was expropriated by the means of Organized Male Violence, war and the legal system. Through this expropriation the children became slaves, wage slaves, soldiers and priests. The enslavement of women as a class coincided with the elevation of the Male God, the God of War in all his guises, Zeus, Thor, Ares, who eventually became the Monotheistic Male Idea Yahweh a complete fantasy disconnected from the real life of Gaia, Mother Earth.

We must recognize that we are still in this phase of history. The MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Bomb) death device was nicknamed ‘The Mother of All Bombs’, an explicit profanation of the concept ‘Mother’, and it was first dropped down onto Mother Earth in Florida, exploding into her skin. We must recognize the symbolic meaning of actual events. The hatred of the Mother which has developed with Organized Male Violence for 10,000 years is seen here literally and symbolically.

In the same way the courageous Rachel Corrie, who the ancient (pre-Neolithic) world would recognize as a Warrior Priestess defending the Home and the Family, was murdered by a Zionist Man (fueled by his belief in the Male God of Monotheism, the Male Idea), driving the ultimate male earth destroyer, a BULL-dozer, over her body, crushing her into Mother Earth. Rachel was a prophetess, the example of the spirit needed to stop the Male Destructive Machine. She died, yes, but then her murderer stopped the bulldozer and walked away. And her spirit endures, inspiring all of us to action.

The only way to control women is through Organized Male Violence. But before that occurs the more efficient system of mind conditioning and social convention do most of the work of keeping women slaves, worldwide.

The Women of the West live off the labor of women in poor countries. Their privileges are based upon the oppression of other women whose labor in bringing forth children and whose hand labor produce our wealth. And these privileges are reversible. Rollback of women’s rights in the U.S. is possible, just as is happening now to the women in Iraq. The fruit of war is a man grinding his heel on a woman’s neck. This is the reality for the past 10,000 years. Read your history with this in mind and it all becomes clear.

The male response to Injustice has been to look everywhere but at the Source: Organized Male Violence. Read this passage carefully:

“War is divine, that is to say it is primordial, essential to life and to the production of men and society. It is deeply seated in human consciousness and its idea embraces all human relationships. When history began mankind revealed and expressed his noblest faculties through war: religion, justice, poetry, the fine arts, economics, politics, government, nobility, bourgeoisie, royalty, property. In subsequent ages war tempered morals, maintained the balance of power between States, aided progress established the reign of justice and guaranteed liberty; Let us imagine for a moment that we can get rid of the idea of war. Nothing remains of either humanity’s past or present existence. We cannot conceive of what society could have been like without it. We cannot guess what it might become Civilization topples into the void. Its form existence becomes myth that does not correspond to any reality, and its future development is an unknown quantity that no philosophy could define.”

This prayer of praise to the male War God was written by anarchist hero Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (War and Peace, p. 23.)! Women and Men, should this man be your inspiration for social change?

This is but one example of how the philosophers of the left have blindly misaimed their critique of the Oppressive Society. They looked at the theory of economics, instead of at the reality of Organized Male Violence.

We are moving towards a militaristic and militarized culture. It is inevitable that this culture will try and take away the human rights earned by and for women.

My purpose in writing is to encourage Women AND Men to recognize the truth of the past 10,000 years of our history. Organized Male Violence has brought us calamity after calamity, to the point now that our species itself is threatened. Now is the time for Women AND Men to join together in a worldwide feminist movement. The left’s primary focus should be to bring women into the political process as quickly as possible, not in the service of Organized Male Violence, but in the service of a revolution AGAINST that violence, and FOR a society based upon Resolution of Conflict through Communication.

Men on the Left need to realize that Radical Feminism is the primary means to a better world, because Radical Feminism is the antithesis of Organized Male Violence. Analyses based upon class and race are necessary, of course, but are secondary.

I’m asking you to participate in creating this new paradigm of resistance and social change. Men and Women must free themselves from the old models of revolutionary change.

The new paradigm will be FEMINIST in the sense that the AIM is to replace the status quo of 10,000 years of Organized Male Violence with a non-hierarchical system based upon conflict resolution through communication, at every level of society where the Organized Male Violence now occurs.

The steps toward this world include creation of alternative institutions, for example non-violent peacekeepers who come to the scenes of conflict rather than the police, trained in the ancient skill of conflict resolution. It would include a systematic identification and description of every level of organized male violence, everywhere in the world, using the internet.

This is a PRACTICAL vision because it is based upon skills currently practiced by ordinary human beings everywhere.

We are responsible for being the ones who end the rule of Organized Male Violence, which will allow humanity to move into a sustainable way of living in harmony with Mother Earth.