Editor's note: The following is the first of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at the People's Forum in July 2020. This first part focuses on Kollontai's struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as her struggle to center...
Introduction Despite its association with sovereign nations involved in wartime alliances, the term “ally” has become influential in activist circles on the US left. Attention to debates over what it means to be an ally reveal the limits of the politics of allyship....