Second wave feminism was internationalist. We drew attention not just to rape/abuse in the West, but to women executed in Afghanistan for ankles exposed beneath their burkhas; to bride burnings in India. Liberal-pomo feminism destroyed that solidarity and replaced it w/hypocrisy
Have read Chomsky. The point about Vietnam is *not* that it was the beginning of US imperialism; it's that the left started applying the lessons of Vietnam to everything whether it applied or not & abandoned nuanced thinking.
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It was the first war conducted on TV and rightly revealed how rotten the whole enterprise was. But the left never recovered from Vietnam IMHO. We can agree to disagree on that of course.
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