SCUM Manifesto bears witness to an avant-garde theorising of the interweaving of gender and class 17, the way in which mecha-nisms of male domination are deeply anchored in capitalism as a class structure. Calling for economic equality “within the mon-ey-work system” does not question the profoundly unequal foun-dations upon which western capitalist “democracies” have been built, relying on “a very particular universalism” 18, whose bench-mark is the White Bourgeois Man. If some dominate, it is because others are oppressed. Achieving equality within an inherently une-qual system is pure fantasy: in the social field like in physics, “noth-ing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed” 19. The “Others” will escape their scum condition, if and only if the few privileged ones are willing to offload some of their multiple priv-ileges. But they are not close to doing so, you have to put yourself in their privileged shoes.

Refusing any compromise, Solanas resists the disciplining of women’s tongues and actions 20:

“SCUM will not picket, demonstrate, march or strike to at-tempt to achieve its ends. Such tactics are for nice, genteel ladies who scrupulously take only such action as is guaran-teed to be ineffective (…) Also SCUM, being cool and selfish, will not subject to getting itself rapped on the head with billy