The SCUM Manifesto has been reprinted at least 10 times in English and translated into Croatian, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Danish. wanted made were included and that many other changes in wording were made-all for the worse-and that there were many 'typographical errors': words and even extended parts of sentences left out, rendering the passages they should've been in incoherent.' In 1977, Solanas self-published a 'correct' edition which was closer to the original version and included an introduction written by her. In an interview with The Village Voice, Solanas commented on the Olympia Press edition, complaining that ' none of the corrections . According to Jansen, there are subtle differences between the 1968 Olympia Press edition and Solanas' original mimeographed version. It includes a preface by Maurice Girodias and an essay titled 'Wonder Waif Meets Super Neuter' by Paul Krassner.

The first commercial edition of the Manifesto was published by Olympia Press in New York in 1968. Solanas signed a publishing contract with Maurice Girodias in August 1967 for a novel and asked him to accept the SCUM Manifesto in its place later that year. By the following spring, about 400 copies had been sold. Solanas charged women one dollar and men two dollars each. In 1967, she self-published the first edition by making two thousand mimeographed copies and selling them on the streets of Greenwich Village in New York City. While feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson defended Solanas and considered the Manifesto a valid criticism of patriarchy, others, such as Betty Friedan, considered Solanas' views to be too radical and polarizing. This event brought significant public attention to the Manifesto and Solanas herself. The Manifesto was little-known until Solanas attempted to murder Andy Warhol in 1968. Solanas objected, insisting that it was not an acronym, although the expanded term appeared in a Village Voice ad she had written in 1967. The term 'SCUM' appeared on the cover of the first edition from Olympia Press as 'S.C.U.M.' and was said to stand for 'Society for Cutting Up Men'. The Manifesto has been described as a satire or parody, especially due to its parallels with Freud's theory of femininity, though this has been disputed, even by Solanas herself. To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of SCUM, an organization dedicated to overthrowing society and eliminating the male sex. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. SCUM Manifesto is a radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas, published in 1967.

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