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The scum manifesto5/24/2023 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 “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… It was the truth, and the truth is so absurd it’s painful.” -Michelle Tea 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. “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.”įirst 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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