The Argentine writer and anthropologist, Rita Segatoassured this Sunday that “if no revolution has reached its destination to date” it is because none has brought down the patriarchy and “without touching that tile, you will never reach your destination”, when closing the International Feminist Meeting (EIF 2023) in Madrid with the Spanish Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, and the feminist activist and wife of the President of Chile, Irina Karamanos.
“No revolution until today has ever reached its destination because it lacks a tile that goes down, which underlies its project and that without touching that tile, which is patriarchy, the destination of a revolution will never, ever, ever be reached” , Segato said during her participation in the table “Feminism and women in the dispute for power” held this afternoon at the Complutense University of Madrid, as a corollary to the meeting organized by the portfolio led by Montero and started last Friday.
The writer began by saying that “influence is more important than power” if what is wanted is to “change the world”, which was always sought from the acquisition of “plots of power, such as the State”. .
“Talking about inequality is insufficient because today there is not a problem of inequality, there is a problem of ownership. This great concentration of wealth is a great concentration of power over life and death.”
? Rita Segato at the closing of the #EIF2023 pic.twitter.com/wxerXcWw6B
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“I have a text called ‘No patriarch will make the revolution’. And why can we affirm it without any doubt? Because they could never do it, because until now they have not done it”he assured.
On the other hand, when referring to social inequality more generally, Segato affirmed that “talking about inequality is already insufficient, because today there is not a problem of inequality but of ‘ownership’, of ‘lordship’, of ownership, as if was a great refeudalization” of the world.
“The degree of concentration of wealth is so big that what we actually have is a ‘paraeconomics‘, a ‘paralegality‘, a ‘parapolice‘, and one ‘paracommunication‘” he stressed.
“No revolution until today has ever reached its destination because it lacks a tile that goes down, which underlies its project and that without touching that tile, which is patriarchy, the destination of a revolution will never, ever, ever be reached” .Rita Segato
He added that “in total that adds a ‘parastate’ that governs life and we do not see the fictionality of lawof justice because deep down that great concentration of wealth is a great concentration of power over life and death that many people refuse to see”.
“No revolution until today has ever reached its destination because it lacks a tile that underlies its project and that without touching that tile, which is patriarchy, the destination of a revolution will never be reached.”
? Rita Segato at the closing of the #EIF2023 pic.twitter.com/AVt55Jtc0C
— International Feminist Meeting 2023 (@EIF2023) February 26, 2023
On the other hand, the anthropologist warned about the “expansion” of this para-state, “it is a natural and inevitable consequence of the great concentration not only of financial moneyvolatile, but also of large land areas” as “we live it, for example, in the Patagonia” Argentina.
For her part, the Minister for Equality, Irene Monteroregretted that women “always” have been denied the exercise of power “because of being women”but extolled that the feminist movement “is being the main democratic impulse of the entire world.”
Gabriela Cerruti considered that “the cry for peace must also be raised by the feminist movement”, when participating in a meeting of thousands of women from all over the world that takes place in Madrid, Spainhttps://t.co/4cD3Rb4C7p
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“This Meeting contributed to seeing us affected by thoughts that are not comfortable or that we had not heard before. The commitment of feminisms has an aspiration of civilizational transformation, of feeling affected by what happens to the rest,” Karamanos said in turn.
In addition to Segato, Argentina was represented by other prominent personalities such as the presidential spokesperson Gabriela Cerruti and the former Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta.
