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‘Backward ideas’ about women’s role

Leanne MacMillan, Peter McVey, Toron-
to, write: The enthusiasm shown by the
Tribune for perestroika, glasnost and Mik-
hail Gorbachev is quite understandable.
The CPSU leadership has initiated a bold
and positive attack on “negative pheno-
menon” in Soviet society — backward
ideas, styles of work and violations of legal-
ity have been revealed and reviled. It would
be appropriate to review Gorbachev’s
book, “Perestroika,” in the same style as
shortcomings are being reviewed.

“Perestroika” contains some of the most
backward musings about women’s role in
society that we have read in a long time. He
sees women’s integration into production as
the root of “many of our problems in child-
ren’s and young people’s behaviour, in our
morals, culture and production.” He seeks

debate on “what we should do to make it
possible for women to return to their purely
-womanly mission — housework, the up-

bringing of children and the creation of a

good family atmosphere.”
Many Tribune readers have quietly dis-

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cussed these passages among themselves.
But private comments will not suffice. The
Tribune would do well to review the draft
program of the Communist Party of Can-
ada more carefully. “It is necessary to com-
bat the growing ideological, organized
campaign by neo-conservatism and other
right-wing forces seeking to promote back-
ward ideas about women’s place in society,”
it reads. While Gorbachev’s book has quite
a different goal, it nevertheless strengthens
these backward ideas here in Canada, espe-
cially among those who read it uncritically

and begin to formulate a chorus of apolo-
gies, excuses and rationalizations.

The Tribune would do well to give cover-
age to women in the Soviet Union who are
combatting backward ideas. Perhaps it will
be recognized in time that women’s role in
reproduction of the species, and in organiz-
ing consumption through their unpaid
labour, are just a form of social organiza-
tion. The family came into being, thrived for
a time, but will eventually die. We don’t
need more myths and obscure ahistorical
musings.

Is sell-off of ICBC coming?

Philip Hebbard, Vancouver, writes: The
Socred government is gouging motorists
through the recently increased ICBC vehicle
insurance rates. How can one claim the
need for a 22 per cent increase without sug-
gesting incredibly incompetent accounting
prior to that increase.

I submit that this government’s frantic
drive to privatization makes the continued
functioning of efficient, cheaper public veh-
icle insurance an embarrassment difficult
for the boosters of privatization to stomach
and difficult to explain away. This increase
must be seen as Socred sabotage against our
public insurance corporation and was con-
trived to trigger a campaign by outraged
motorists for a return to private insurance.
Failure of this transparent ploy will

undoubtedly lead, before the next provin-
cial election, to the carrot of reduced vehicle
insurance — only, of course, after an
attempt to convince us of a miraculous
clean-up of the industry.

If we do not work to maintain public
vehicle insurance we will lose it. I am not
going to accept this assault, through
Socred-run interference on behalf of the
private insurance industry, without resist-
ance. Logic dictates that since government
severely penalizes for driving uninsured,
that government should as far as is reason-
ably possible remove all obstacles to com-
pliance with the law. Profit to private
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