TONIGHT! "Infidelity Keeps Us Together" Really? On what basis and to what end?

FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2011  7:00 PM "Infidelity Keeps Us Together"   Really?  On what basis and to what end? A REVOLUTION BOOKS  Free Wheeling Discussion with Sunsara Taylor & Andy Zee    The New York Times Sunday Magazine Cover Story,  July 3,2011, "reconsiders marriage:" "The mistake that straight people made," Savage told me, "was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. Men had concubines, mistresses and access to prostitutes, until everybody decided marriage had to be egalitarian and fairsey." In the feminist revolution, rather than extending to women "the same latitude and license and pressure-release valve that men had always enjoyed," we extended to men the confines women had always endured. "And it's been a disaster for marriage."  Sunday NYT Magazine 7/3/11; pg.24. Consider this: " . . . Imagine if, instead of being a place where people's need for love and compassion is so often frustrated and even mocked, families themselves were undergoing a radical transformation. Imagine marriages and partnerships forged on a truly voluntary basis in a context where love, respect, compassion and equality were increasingly characterizing the way people related throughout society. Imagine if people had privacy and ease of mind within their homes, but if, at the same time, everyone knew that if they experienced abuse or other forms of degradation they would be supported by society and its institutions if they came forward to expose it, struggle against it, or leave. Imagine if people were aiming to go even further, developing new forms of community and ways in which people sustained each other, and mutually flourished together, that were increasingly breaking down and creating the basis to finally transcend the institution of family based on the narrow-and narrowing-ties of biological kinship.. . " From "The Declaration for the Liberation of Women and the Emancipation of Humanity" published by Revolution Newspaper And, "In many ways, and particularly for men, the woman question and whether you seek to completely abolish or to preserve the existing property and social relations and corresponding ideology that enslave women (or maybe "just a little bit" of them) is a touchstone question among the oppressed themselves. It is a dividing line between "wanting in" and really "wanting out": between fighting to end all oppression and exploitation-and the very division of society into classes-and seeking in the final analysis to get your part in this."  Bob Avakian, quoted in "BAsics" Chapter 5, #18. Revolution Books / Libros Revolución 146 W. 26th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues) www.revolutionbooksnyc.org 212-691-3345