Socialist Outlook

Socialist Viewpoint, International, Socialist Outlook and their supplements, 1984–2002

Hands off Outrage!

Socialist Outlook no. 22, May 30 1992 · 170 words

One of the signs of retreat from class politics is a focus on individual issues rather than general questions. This has broadly been the case in times of retreat for workers' movement since the decline of the Chartists in the 1850s.

Your article, or rather long complaint, about Outrage seems to be another example of this 130-year process (SO21). It is of course quite possible to doubt whether "radical queerness' will really do much to achieve lesbian and gay liberation.

But for socialists the decision by Outrage to allow all-comers, gay or straight, black or white to join the fight for such liberation on an equal footing should be welcomed.

Of course the oppresse should organise to light thei own oppression.

But that is very different from arguing as you seem to, that the oppressed can gain liberation only by their own efforts. Socialists have no interest in splitting people into smaller and smaller groups to pursue Only generalise should remain our key slogan and task Keith Flett Tottenham

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