Butch Lee - The Military Strategy of Women and Children

THE MILITARY STRATEGY OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN

by Butch Lee

The Military Strategy Of Women And Children

ISBN 978-1-894946-51-3

Copyright Butch Lee

FIRST KINDLE EDITION 2013

Kersplebedeb Publishing

CP 63560

CCCP Van Horne

Montreal, Quebec

Canada

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Table of Contents

Introduction

important note to the reader

The words that follow should be understood not as newly found ideas but as geological strata underneath our feet. Almost twenty years ago i began an exploration to answer one question how can women make revolutionary change? These first few essays/chapters represent ideas that radical women as a whole were trying to use as starting tools against patriarchy. We were focused on what might happen if the world majority of women didnt learn to take over the leadership of the national liberation movements that were then reshaping the world. We were looking especially at what had developed out of the popular socialist revolutions like China and Vietnam which carried the hopes of many millions of oppressed women.

So these early essays represent both that period and a time of transition. During those years this first part was published in somewhat different form in the Amazon journal, Bottomfish Blues . Before we fully understood that both the states created by the anti-colonial revolutions of the 20th century and our own Womens Liberation movement itself had been taken over by a careerist, pro-capitalist species. We were not so separate as we believed, but part of a complex, larger tide that we had only started to understand.

Appearing in an underground radical feminist journal that was published only sporadically and distributed somewhat randomly, these early chapters had to be shaped to stand alone. We knew that perhaps some sister would read one episode but never see another. So there is some duplication and repetitiveness of ideas, which i can only ask you to be patient about.

Now women are at a nodal point of change, for those hopeful mass revolutions of the 20th century are gone. Women everywhere are left unable to answer the violent repression and miniaturization that is womens life. It is a new period in world politics, and im not so disoriented as to believe that the answers to a new time can come from reading old documents. But since there is no womens history, no womens world politics yet, i offer this past radical feminist work as stones in the future foundation of our liberation.

ill admit that i was tempted to rewrite everything, but we dont have years to update essays. Its a new world crisis for women & children. From forced mass exiles and famines, millions dying in the AIDS plague and the acceleration in the slave trade in women all over the world... to the new mens sport of slaughtering women. To live we need to move into the future. Life, we know, is not just that somehow in some shape we physically survive. Life is being able to do what you choose. To have the power that is ours.

Now i am still working to answer how can women make revolutionary change? No longer as equality with men or taking a role in mens revolutions, but overthrowing the world of men.

Right now post-feminist women in the capitalist metropolis think life is just getting better & better. Hillary, womens pro sports, flying jets over the Third World bombing away, and business opportunities, too. Who woulda imagined? It couldnt be whiter for us. I think we are like those newly-enfranchised German women in the liberal Weimar Republic days during 1919-1933. Sleep walking on the edge of the precipice. For patriarchal capitalism is always dangerous for us. Deadly dangerous.

The approaching tidal wave should alert us. In country after country, right wing men are re-enslaving women as a subhuman class. You know this already, dont you? This is the largest mass political movement in the world by far. Let that sink into your mind, sisthe largest political movement in the world of men.

A counter-trend also rose into life in this same historic moment of intertwined danger & opportunity. And the counter-trend is not liberalism but the arming of women in politics. But this counter-trend has been co-opted into the recruiting of women as soldiers in patriarchal armies. Whether in Nicaragua, the Militia Movement, or the u.s. Air Force. Indeed, as the u.s. military strains to cover the globe it would literally collapse without women soldiers. While still women have no army of our own, no foreign policy that is ours, no rescue force, no territory, no home base. No home.

In these first three chapters we are restarting from ground zero. For our most basic understanding of how women should even think of civilization must be questioned. Many things have happened since these chapters were written, but the main trend of global events has only added momentum to the direction my exploration took. The same is true for those outriders of Womens intellectual advance. Among others, Octavia Butler, Christina Thurmer-Rohr, Suzy McKee Charnas, and Maria Mies, have lit up the terrain in flashes ahead of us.

Now, in this exploration, we are moving onto the ground of meta-politics. Wild, vast and more primal than the little, fenced-in suburban plots of what amerikkka calls politics. From the rape bordellos of the Balkans to the mass murder by AIDS in Afrika, women are being pushed to understand mens society and, most importantly, ourselves, in a different way. The longest Amazon journey begins today.

Amazon isnt a dot.com, its about killing men

Adolf Hitler allegedly dreamed of fighting a trio of naked Amazons riding through space. He broke his spear against one of them in a vain attempt to kill her, for he was sure the Amazons were really Jews.

Judy Grahn

Why should we need Amazons? Women have always killed men. From time way out of mind. Prisons are full of women who stabbed men, shot holes in mens precious bodies, ran men over with cars, poisoned men, beat men to death with some real heavy metal as they slept. X-ray through your lying local newspaper, youll see. Nothing new. So still & again, Amazon isnt a dot.com, its about killing men & the gender male.

Why should we need Amazons? Women have always fought in mens wars. Been soldiers. Look backwards and forwards in time, were there. Not the myth, not the men. Us. Even in feudal Japan, one of the greatest Samurai warriors of the 13th century was the maiden Tomoe, of whom the Kamakura records that in one battle when all the others had been slain, among the last seven rode Tomoe. In World War II, during the terrible fighting retreat from the invading Nazi armies, the desperate Soviets threw into aerial combat thousands of volunteer women pilots in makeshift squadrons led by women. In Italy some 30,000 armed women fought in the Partisan guerrillas against the fascists. So these G.I. Janes in khaki flying u.s. army helicopters stuff is nothing new except maybe to us. We who dont remember who we are.

Even Adolf Hitler, who was scared shitless of us, needed women much more than we wanna admit. While he was in prison and afterwards, after his 1923 Munich macho disaster, women not men held his puny party together. I left jail after thirteen months imprisonment to find they had sustained the movement, Hitler admitted. Nazi dicks bailed, but us women were a rock. Isnt that a time-hammered cliche?

Then Hitler needed a whole new level of propaganda for his politics, whose followers had to be swept into leaving all known moral compass points behind them. So over the sexist objections of his men Hitler personally empowered filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to be a key propagandist for him. Her brilliant movie Triumph of the Will was the cultural equivalent of the famous Nazi high explosive aerial bombing-annihilation of the city of Guernica. One German Jew who survived remembers how his entire high school had to watch her film, with the few Jewish students sitting segregated in front. Afterwards, stirred to a patriotic enthusiasm, the teachers watched with approval as the Jews were ritually beaten up by their classmates. Who says women cant break the glass ceiling?