“¡Se Va a Caer, Se Va a Caer!” (It´s Going to Fall, It´s Going to Fall!): The Power of Marxist Feminism for a Political Critique of Patriarchal Capitalism

Abstract

In this paper, we are interested in recovering some current reflections on the possible articulations betweenmarxism and feminism: on one hand, from the theoretical concern for the particular forms of exploitation ofwomen and the LGTBQ comunity within the frame of a neoliberal global hegemony that acquires a new intensityin Latin America, on the other, from the political commitment to the feminisms and activisms of sex-genderdissidence, social movements that in recent times have achieved a surprising political and social mobilization,articulating diverse demands and heterogeneous resistance practices, constituting a powerful laboratory ofpolitical experimentation. While these political and intellectual strategies could be read as particular, scattered,fragmentary or discontinuous criticisms, their power lies in their ability to update and articulate historical contentand marginalized political languages, disqualified, discarded by the neoliberal-neoconservative hegemony. Thepurpose of this paper is to analyze and put into discussion these practices of resistance -its legacies andchallenges-, not only from the political creativity that they bring to the scene, but also from their constitutiveheterogeneity. Our proposal seeks to recover the diversity and complexity of political languages, politicizingways of subjectivation, emancipatory imaginaries and resistance practices of feminist activism and sex-genderdissidence that have multiplied in Argentina in recent times.