In saying this, she means that Marxism, by exercising ideological and political power over the workers and all other political groups for the purpose of achieving communism, does not leave room for individual subjectivity, and fails to enable the masses to fight voluntarily because essentially, the people themselves did not change. Wittig points out that generating individual subjectivity and class consciousness is the first condition of a successful revolution, for “without which there can be no real fight or transformation” (Wittig, p.19). The world would not change spontaneously without individual’s own personal and ontological consciousness and actions. To do this, it is necessary to destroy the categories of sex and to abandon “women” as a class, for “the category of sex is a totalitarian one… it shapes the mind as well as the body since it controls all mental production” (Wittig,
In saying this, she means that Marxism, by exercising ideological and political power over the workers and all other political groups for the purpose of achieving communism, does not leave room for individual subjectivity, and fails to enable the masses to fight voluntarily because essentially, the people themselves did not change. Wittig points out that generating individual subjectivity and class consciousness is the first condition of a successful revolution, for “without which there can be no real fight or transformation” (Wittig, p.19). The world would not change spontaneously without individual’s own personal and ontological consciousness and actions. To do this, it is necessary to destroy the categories of sex and to abandon “women” as a class, for “the category of sex is a totalitarian one… it shapes the mind as well as the body since it controls all mental production” (Wittig,