[Marxism] Women and the Russian Revolution: `Our task is to make politics available to every working woman' | Links

[glparramatta <glparramatta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The persistence of gender inequality in the most advanced capitalist 
societies, with the most complete bourgeois democracy in which women 
have full formal equality, has put paid to the idea that women's 
liberation is possible within the framework of capitalism, even in its 
"healthiest" periods of expansion. Today, in a period of global 
capitalist stagnation and crisis, as the "gender gap" widens and women, 
especially in the Third World, bear the brunt of the capitalist class's 
neo-liberal offensive against the working class as a whole, the 
correctness of the Marxist analysis of women's oppression as a 
cornerstone of class society and its revolutionary approach to achieving 
women's liberation is clearer than ever before.

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