TLI-SRC-0023 // Archived original
A Black Feminist Statement
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- Title
- A Black Feminist Statement
- Author
- Combahee River Collective
- Year
- dated April 1977; first collected in Eisenstein, ed., Capitalist Patriarchy (1978)
- Document type
- Pamphlet
- Source class
- 1. Primary text (the thinker’s own work)
- Standpoint
- Movement: writes from inside the tradition
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We realize that the liberation of all oppressed peoples necessitates the destruction of the political-economic systems of capitalism and imperialism as well as patriarchy. We are socialists
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This focusing upon our own oppression is embodied in the concept of identity politics. We believe that the most profound and potentially the most radical politics come directly out of our own identity, as opposed to working to end somebody else's oppression.
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Checked by Mike, 2026-08-09, in Zillah R. Eisenstein, ed., Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, Monthly Review Press, 1978, p. 365, reading "potentially the most radical". The UCLA Center for the Study of Women reprint omits "the"; the printings differ and this record follows Eisenstein.
the liberation of all oppressed peoples necessitates the destruction of the political-economic systems of capitalism and imperialism as well as patriarchy
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Read in the named edition against the printed page.
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- documented
The Combahee River Collective statement of 1977 holds that the liberation of all oppressed peoples necessitates the destruction of capitalism and imperialism as well as patriarchy, and declares its authors socialists.
Filed in: Decoder: Capitalism
- documented
The Combahee River Collective statement of 1977 holds that the liberation of all oppressed peoples necessitates the destruction of capitalism and imperialism as well as patriarchy.
Filed in: Decoder: Racism
- documented
The Combahee River Collective's 1977 statement argued that the most profound and potentially the most radical politics come directly out of one's own identity.
Filed in: Dossier: Combahee River Collective
- assessed
The Combahee River Collective's April 1977 statement is the earliest known use of the term identity politics.
Filed in: Dossier: Combahee River Collective
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