I won't pretend to talk about Scum Manifesto with much objectivity. If there is a more exhilarating start to any political tract, I'm damned if I know it. This is the first sentence of Scum Manifesto. Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex. Suzanne Moore on Scum Manifesto by Valerie Solanas (The review first appeared in The New Statesman and is posted here with Suzanne's permission.)
Below Suzanne reviews Valerie Solanas's Scum Manifesto. She has published two books of collected journalism, Looking for Trouble and Head Over Heels. She has been a columnist for The Guardian, The Independent and The New Statesman, and now writes for The Mail on Sunday. Please consider visiting the AK Press website to learn more about the fundraiser to help them and their neighbors.Suzanne Moore is an award-winning journalist. In Oakland, California on Maa fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, Solanas was immortalized in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol. You've got to go through a lot of sex to get to anti-sex, and SCUM's been through it all, and they're now ready for a new show they want to crawl out from under the dock, move, take off, sink out." -Valerie Solanas Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. It was the truth, and the truth is so absurd it's painful." -Michelle Tea "Unhampered by propriety, niceness, discretion, public opinion, 'morals', the respect of assholes, always funky, dirty, low-down SCUM gets around. Humor such as this is a muscle, a weapon. The truth of the world as seen though Valerie's eyes is patently absurd, a cosmic joke.
"To see the SCUM Manifesto's humor, to let it crack you up page after page, is not to read it as a joke. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this classic is a call to action-a radical feminist vision for a different world.
First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms.
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