![]() ![]() ![]() To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of SCUM, an organization dedicated to overthrowing society and eliminating the male sex. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. In this edition, philosopher Avital Ronell's introduction reconsiders the evocative exuberance of this infamous text. SCUM Manifesto is a radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas, published in 1967. In fact, the work has proved prescient, not only as a radical feminist analysis light years ahead of its time-predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against underrepresentation in the arts-but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman. But for all its vitriol, it is impossible to dismiss as the mere rantings of a lesbian lunatic. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published the book just before she became a notorious household name and was confined to a mental institution. Its not a satirical text, more is it a programme. "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." Outrageous and violent, SCUM Manifesto was widely lambasted when it first appeared in 1968. The Scum manifesto is a serious cry by a mentally ill woman who had been treated like shit her entire life. ![]()
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