Title: Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement
Headings: Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement
Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement
Content: We hope that it may provide a common language in which we can begin to talk, a context in which we can meet to plan how to move. I. SOCIALIST FEMINISM
We choose to identify ourselves with the heritage and future of feminism and socialism in our struggle for revolution. From feminism we have learned the fullness of our own potential as women, the strength of women. We have seen our common self-interest with other women and our common oppression. Having found these real bonds as women, we realize we can rely on each other as we fight for liberation. Feminism has moved us to see more concretely what becomes of people shaped by social conditions they do not control. We find our love and hate focused through our feminism��love for other women bound by the same conditions, hate for the oppression that binds us. A great strength we find in feminism is the reaffirmation of human values, ideals of sisterhood: taking care of people, being sensitive to people's needs and developing potential. From feminism we have come to understand an institutionalized system of oppression based on the domination of men over women: