Her critique towards male artists is similarly acerbic: “A ‘male artist' is a contradiction in terms. Some see Solanas’ manifesto not only as the rejection of stereotypical ideas on femininity, but a radical parody on patriarchal social order, a form of political satire. Generally seen as a radical declaration of war against capitalism and patriarchy, the SCUM Manifesto can also be regarded as a mockery of the Freudian theory of ‘penis envy’, with men’s and women’s positions presented in the Manifesto as reversed. Besides her radical criticism of patriarchy, Solanas argues for money-free society and “the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality”, as money is seen as a means of manipulation, control and power. Having turned the world into a “shitpile”, males deserve nothing but extermination according to Solanas, and to change society and fix the world, the organisation SCUM should be set up. Solanas begins her manifesto by describing human males as genetically deficient due to the Y chromosome, which makes them “incomplete females”. Self-published in 1967, it became widely known a year later when the first commercial edition was published soon after Solanas’ infamous attempt to kill Andy Warhol. The SCUM Manifesto is a radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas.
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