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Maoist Internationalist Movement
1996 MIM Congress
Gender Theory Resolutions
Session II
In the world as a whole, the numerical majority of gender-oppressed people
are biological womyn. Nevertheless, as dialectical materialists - as
Maoists - MIM understands that gender oppression is principally
determined by social relations and not by anatomy. Therefore, some groups
of biological womyn are not gender oppressed, and some groups of
biological men are not gender oppressors; these groups are numerical
minorities. In a world with overlapping autonomous forms of oppression, it
is the relations of nation and class that push a minority of biological
women out of gender oppression, and push a minority of biological men out
of gender oppressor positions.
Change the above to:
"Therefore, some groups of biological wimmin are principally gender
oppressors, not gender oppressed, and some groups of biological men are
principally gender oppressed, not gender oppressors. These groups are
numerical minorities. In a world with overlapping autonomous forms of
oppression, it is principally the relations of nation and class that push a
minority of biological wimmin into gender oppressor positions, and push a
minority of biological men into gender oppressed positions."
Session I
Consistent with its approach to language
questions, MIM will now spell "women" as "womyn" as
a matter of making those changes in our lifestyle/culture
which are easy to make and possible within capitalism.
MIM has already made similar such spelling changes
with the capital "B" for Black issue and has changed
entire words and spellings in relationship to the
national question. Furthermore, Mao also simplified the
entire Chinese alphabet.
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