What is the Revolutionary Potential of Womens Liberation?
The potential for revolutionary thought and action lies in the masses of super-oppressed and super-exploited working class women. We have seen the stagnation in New Left women’s groups caused by the lack of the need to fight that class oppression produces. Unlike most radical women, working class women have no freedom of alternatives, no chance of achieving some slight degree of individual liberation. It is these women, through their struggle, who will develop a revolutionary women’s liberation movement. A women’s liberation movement will be necessary if unity of the working class is ever to be achieved. Until working men see their female co-workers and their own wives as equal in their movement, and until those women see that it is in their own interests and that of their families to “dare to win,” the position of women will continue to undermine every working class struggle. The attitude of unions, and of the workers themselves, that women should not work, and that they do not do dif
