![]() ![]() While MacKinnon’s Marxist analysis of the sexes was percolating in the minds of American academics and Harvard graduates were hardening the iron of critical race theory, Roger Scruton sat across the Atlantic, at the time as a professor at Birkbeck College in London, watching the destruction of his academic career. Racism will be abolished when those customs, laws, and institutions are abolished or remade. Those who continue to follow the customs of the society in which they live will continue their racist ways. ![]() As Marx produced a critical theory of the economy, so MacKinnon set out to produce a critical theory of sex.Īt the same time, a group of thinkers, most of whom were graduates of Harvard Law School who had participated in the 1982 effort to force Harvard to hire more minority faculty, set out to develop critical race theory, which holds that racism is built into the very grammar, institutions, and customs we employ and participate in. Until we tear down the institutions and social forms that propagate sexism, she declared, we will fail to overcome the antagonism of oppressor and oppressed that defines the relationship between men and women. Sexism is ingrained in our very institutions, our grammar, and our surroundings, MacKinnon warned. In 1989, for example, Catharine MacKinnon published Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, arguing that gender is a social construct that is based upon a disordered relationship between dominant men and hitherto oppressed women. ![]()
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