Waiting for the revolution, or how to smash capitalism while working at home in your spare time

This paper has a surplus of titles. The authoritative title is “Rethinking Capitalism,” affirming a connection with Rethinking MARXISM and with the larger movement to “rethink” received concepts; indeed, to question the entire epistemic foundation that has rendered such concepts prevalent and effective. The querulous title is “Why can feminists have revolution now, while marxists have to wait”? I’m drawn to this question about feminism and revolution, even though it may be a little misleading.’ The question points to the proximity of social transformation for certain feminisms- that image of gender as something always being renegotiated, that vision of social transformation taking place at the interpersonal level as well as at the level of society as a whole. Those things make the marxist in me envious of the feminists within and outside me. My feminism reshapes the terrain of my social existence on a daily basis. Why can’t my marxism have as its object something that I am involved in reconstructing every day? Where is my lived project of socialist construction?