IMAGES OF FRATERNITY: SOCIALIST SLOGANS, FEMINIST VALUES
In: Dissent: a journal devoted to radical ideas and the values of socialism and democracy, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 69-76
ISSN: 0012-3846
IN THE GLOOM OF PRESENT-DAY POLITICS, SOCIALISTS MAY WELL LOSE THEMSELVES IN NOSTALGIC DREAMS OF FRATERNITY. WE FEEL HEMMED IN BY A WORLD OF SELF-INTEREST, AND WE EXPERIENCE THE DAILY WEAKENING OF THOSE BONDS OF CLASS AND COMMUNITY THAT GAVE THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENTS SO MUCH OF ITS STRENGTH. THE WORLD WE NOW INHABIT SEEMS MARKEDLY INDIVIDUALISTIC; WE CAST AROUND IN TREPIDATION FOR SOME SURVIVING SIGNS OF COLLECTIVE FEELING.