Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholero Marqucz's magic realism and Reviewed by DAVID pointed with Marquer's alike will not be disap- Love in the Time of breaks somewhat Irom latest novel. GRANT Cholera Page 32
our sexuality - surely a importance. Such a dis- based on ignorance and the slogan 'Our bodies, our choice' - somchow And for whom were demanding equal pay. education and nursery Jogical conclusion of and therefore of little not a social demand, tinction can only he socialist feminists: provision? Straight women only? prejudice, Your Letters Having just read Valeric Invisible once more in Outionk No.9. I feelI Let us unite to defcat Dear Socialist Outlook. Coultas" article British must write to take issue any proposal to that cf feminism ten years on Lesbians made Walter Cairns LETTERS have charge of formulat- referendum is the power referendum can serve as loaded in such a way as (*Do you think that this to provoke a 'yes' vote wielded by those who Here the 1975 EEC country should stay in against the process of only was the question ing the all-important a good example. Not decision-making by ways been raised question. on any topic. preferab- For some of the leading charge of the party, the Socialist Outlook wel- 400 words in length. current policy review policy-making by ly of not more than figures currently in Dear comrades, referendum! Italy and Germany are dominated of the Emperor is beginning to be catholic church. In Japan the cult revived (even if Hirohito himself development of imperialism rein- century Puritanism, is on the rise. by Christian parties linked to the talism, the ghost of seventeenth- colomal exploitation allowed the idcologies. Lenin added that the bourgeoisie was transformed by the rise of "finance capital" and Marx argued that after 1848 democratic past and to support forced this tendency, while the working class led it to retreat the bourgeoisie's fear of the is not! - Ed). And so on... reachionary regimes and from its revolutionary-
face in terms of employ- As a socialist, lesbian crimination all lesbians ment to be discounted? prejudice faced by les- ferent institutionalised bian mothers to be ig- This is what seems to losing sight of the dif- be implied in your ar- walls of hostility and capitalist state as the Are the massive enemy but without nored, and the dis- Ecminist. I see the ticle: heterosexism that the ar- classlesy politics of radi- evidence to the contrary paraded in the name of socialist feminist and I Yet again, patronis- I detine myself as a ing ant-lesbianism is thus playing into the am a leshian (having hands of the largcly "socialist feminism' finally decided that despite all of the with the blatant ticle displays. during his lemm of office. it, is there any guarantee which was as manipula- bered that in France, De Going back even fur- But come to think of minority of party mem- pert manipulator of the government Statement thcr. it will be remem- Gaulle was also an ex- that even a substantial Community?): it was relerendum question bers would bother to tive as it was untrue. also preceded by a the European and Lahour Listens cam- He look advantage of Lahour's defence policy the Parliamentary vaca- cnough in transtorming Labour into a party fit enterprise' indulged in tion to launch his own for their prejudices to been spurred on by a by Scan Hughes, MP for Knowsley South. Iccent bit of 'private paigns do not go far In this, they have little survey on British backwardness of explain- that the old repuhlican alliance of ly needs to become republican, 1o: but also the universal charscieris- This traditional marxist theory The workers" movement vital- fact, to which Nairn seems blind, suppon of sections of the work- and working class cannot today national capital. petty borgenis ing class through concessions. ing not onty the "British' case. become distoval to Queen and imperialst regimes to win the It also predicts the evident has the great advantage over Naim's theory of specific ties of imperialist capital. be reconstructed.
All men bencfit from easy - but some peopic to relinquish the power these groups of peopic Rebecca Fleming, straights benchit from capitalism; and to get within that capitalist. they have is far from heterosexism within power relationships patriarchy, and all heterosexism-frec have to try Yours for a socialism, I scc women's oppres- women as a symptom of not the cause of that ine- power between men and the two are not mutually However 1 complete- "social' demand and the women in our society, makes the demand for fertility control a vital male violence against sion as rooted in the capitalist order, and the incqualities of ly fail to see what it would be courting dis- credibility problem, not to mention now internal vote? A result hased on rently apply within the from perfect, However aster if Lahour were to arm-twisting potential techniques which cur- The policy-making sham democracy and saddle itself with the a low turnout would of one-off members" Labour party are far cause a major convulsions. 1983 and 1987 clections. that the verdict recorded Icader to favour the idca in his constituency, and this rather insignificant means of a referendum non-nuclear policy on: In the aftermath of vociferusiy claimed of settling the party's event, the press have which we fought the reported the Labour defence policy by that allows him the space to com- dividual fates and generalise their "modernise" "backward" Brilain. country, to pose alternatives to but with the aim of crcating its But it needs to do so not as own class power and its own ment so wryly upon their in- socialist international order. part of a movement to
Page 33 scheduled for June 27- At the time of going meeting had been ar- had indeed been can- to press, the original celled, and no new fringe mecting - Heffer: point taken Oxford. ranged. demand to control over was the case, and happy misunderstanding that take place at the NUR We are pleased this created by the article. conference on July 4. might have been Socialist Outlook: No.9, Eric Heffer has written to us following our ar- ticle on the Benn-Hef- fringe meeting for the campaign did in fact pointing out that a fer campaign in referenda. One of the central ob- creasingly disenchanted which have become in- making machinery as it held amongst its entire may even tempt some operates at the annual jections which has al- with Labour's policy- many attractions and course, this idea has sections of the Left Superficially, of membership. conference. SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 9 October 1988 (the symptoms exactly the same), that pervades this novel may per- experiences to be ot relevance to coming more compassionate and and his novel is worth reading if less analytical. After all, Floren- tino is sentenced to a mere half- only to find out if you are likely the fate of whole social classes, suade some that Marquez is be- Marquez proposes Love and Cholera are essentially similar sense of the approach of death The particularly personal Century of solitude! to be struck down.
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