“The Point Is to Change It”: Marxist Feminist Contradictions and Revolutionary Love

Abstract

This contribution to a symposium on Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today—edited by Khayaat Fakier, Diana Mulinari, and Nora Räthzel—follows a thread connecting various chapters with the author’s own work on the “forces of reproduction” and their revolutionary potential for responding to the global crisis of reproduction that characterizes the present time. In the face of unprecedented threats to human and nonhuman life, twenty-first-century Marxist feminists have been striving to turn care into the guiding principle of a revolution from the institutionalized carelessness of capitalism to a postcapitalist society that can finally be careful: a society of caring, by all for all, including the nonhuman life and earth systems that make human lives possible and worth living.

Key Words:

• Feminism
• Marxism
• Revolution
• Social Reproduction
• Transformation