Not someone who was insane, but someone who was pushed over the edge by a sexist society that dominates everything. She makes Solanas someone the reader can identify with. Tea’s foreword briefly removes the sociopath tag from Solanas, and brings her closer to home. Starting with their abusive fathers and stepfathers, extending through their lives as prostitutes, their dreams of violence, and into their lives as writers. Tea’s foreword is an anecdotal map of similarities between her own life and Solanas’s. On the other hand, the foreword by acclaimed queer author Michelle Tea that comes with the new AK Press version does exactly what Ronell’s essay was afraid to do. She always looked from the outside, and was never really able to make sense of her fascination with Solanas. Ronell’s essay added very little to the discussion, although she tried very hard by quoting Derrida and other French philosophers. In that version the manifesto served as a footnote to philosopher Avital Ronell’s long-winded essay about Solanas. The last version of the manifesto was put out by Verso in 2004. What makes each new version of the manifesto special is the texts it’s packaged with. That can be found for free all over the Internet. Her 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol is often cited as evidence to the sincerity of her mission.īut what makes each new version of the SCUM Manifesto special isn’t the actual manifesto. Others have attested to the seriousness of Solanas’s convictions. The original publisher, Maurice Girodias, a sort of Malcolm McLaren type, saw the statement as a parody: think Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” or the Dead Kennedy’s “Kill the Poor.” Lester Bangs saw the punk rock in Solanas, and dreamt about what a great front woman she would have been. So much has been written about this fascinating text over the years that it’s almost impossible to pin down an accurate appraisal of the manifesto. SCUM, it is said, stands for the Society for Cutting Up Men. In October AK Press released a new edition of Valerie Solanas’s infamous SCUM Manifesto. Written in 1967, the manifesto has become controversial for its call to eliminate the male sex.
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