There’s big discussions in my country right now whether one should introduce a women’s quota for political positions, e.g. requiring at least 50% of the elected politicians to be female. While I’m not that much interested in such a discussion in a bourgeois state, it did make me think about how this would be tackled in a socialist state. China comes to mind, where women in the congress are still a very clear minority. Thoughts?
It’s essential in any system to combat biais with affirmative action. This will change very little in a bourgeois state, but it could definitely be a good thing in a worker’s state.
The ones who argue against affirmative action in bourgeois states do so within a liberal framework, so there is no point in supporting them. There is also no point in making this a priority for revolutionaries to actively support bourgeois politics. Passive support is therefore what I think is the best.