Ithaca College Prof Claims Agriculture is ‘Capitalist Racialized Patriarchy’
This is one lecture you should be glad you missed.
The Cornell Review reports.
Ithaca College Prof. at Cornell Lecture: Agriculture is ‘Capitalist Racialized Patriarchy’
Zillah Eisenstein, a professor politics at Ithaca College, declared in a lecture last Friday that agriculture is “capitalist, racialized patriarchy.”
The lecture was titled “Thinking about Hetero-Racist Misogyny in ‘Agriculture’” and took place at nearby Cornell University as part of a seminar series on gender issues in the practice of agriculture.
Eisenstein also declared that if war and climate change are extinguished, then there will be “room for revolutionary agriculture.”
Though an author of 12 books with titles such as Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism and her memoir Manmade Breast Cancers, Eisenstein has never worked in or studied agriculture. The professor explained that she was speaking as part of a seminar series on women in agriculture by stating, “[m]y point here is you’re thinking agriculture and I’m thinking capitalist racialized patriarchy.”
Eisenstein also declared that if war and climate change are extinguished, then there will be “room for revolutionary agriculture.”
Most of her lecture was devoted to the concept of intersectionality, or the idea that different forms of discrimination and oppression are interrelated and cannot be understood independently of each other. Eisenstein mostly digressed to philosophical ruminations about capitalism, racism, sexism, imperialism, neo-liberal democracy, and Marxism.
Ithaca College Prof. at Cornell Lecture: Agriculture is ‘Capitalist Racialized Patriarchy’ (The Cornell Review)
Comments
Did Eisenstein not read about revolutionized agriculture in Zimbabwe at the hands of the Confucius Peace Prize winner Mugabe? Zimbabwe went from a net food exporter to a net food importer. How about the revolutionary agriculture practices in the former Soviet Union under Stalin and China under Mao that resulted in tens of millions of deaths from famine?
Jeez! What utter babble! This woman ought to stop eating food, stop wearing clothes, stop driving a car, stop using a phone, stop using/doing anything that is a fruit of capitalism.