{"id":324534,"date":"2017-09-04T11:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T10:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-historical-alternative-to-pink-pussy-cat-hats\/"},"modified":"2017-09-04T11:01:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T10:01:35","slug":"a-historical-alternative-to-pink-pussy-cat-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-historical-alternative-to-pink-pussy-cat-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"A Historical Alternative to Pink Pussy Cat Hats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Where are the strong women socialists feminists of today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, in the midst of the pink pussy hat women joining \u201cThe Resistance\u201d by denouncing Trump while blaming those who didn\u2019t vote for Hillary, I keep searching for strong women socialist feminists to follow and emulate. There are some, but they\u2019re not very visible in the mainstream media. Kshama Sawant, the Seattle City Council member, is one. Mar\u00eda de Jes\u00fas Patricio Mart\u00ednez, a Nahua indigenous healer, The Zapatistas and National Indigenous Congress\u2019 (CNI) selection of as their spokesperson and presidential candidate for the 2018 elections in Mexico, is another. Gloria La Riva, presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), is a third. All of these women are, and have been, fighting for social and economic equality, including the rights of women. But their primary focus has always been to see capitalism as the problem and the reason for inequality. In my mind, feminism can\u2019t be separated from socialism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the differences between radical feminists in history and those today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be a feminist in a declining capitalist system in 2017?<\/p>\n<p>Liberals today think it means the integration of middle and upper middle class women\u2019s rights <em>within the capitalist system<\/em>. In the past this meant the right to vote for women of wealth. Today it means the right to equal pay, voting more women into public office, freedom from sexual harassment and discrimination,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/09\/a-historical-alternative-to-pink-pussy-cat-hats\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where are the strong women socialists feminists of today? Today, in the midst of the pink pussy hat women joining \u201cThe Resistance\u201d by denouncing Trump while blaming those who didn\u2019t vote for Hillary, I keep searching for strong women socialist feminists to follow and emulate. There are some, but they\u2019re not very visible in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}