Paul Craig Roberts

Nationally syndicated columnist Paul Craig Roberts maintains in the subsequent viewpoint that feminists are wrong to pursue an international policy on women’s rights. American feminists who want to impose their absolutist standards of gender equality on other countries are self-righteous and ethnocentric, Roberts contends.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. What comparison does Roberts make between global feminism and communism?
2. What is the nature of the feminist global agenda, as described by the author?
3. What evidence does the author provide that American radical feminists do not occupy the progressive ground"

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