Feminism and the Marxist Movement

Since the founding of the modern revolutionary workers movement nearly 150 years ago, Marxists have championed the struggle for women's rights and explained the economic roots in class society of women's oppression. "The struggle for women's liberation," Waters writes, "was lifted out of the realm of the personal, the 'impossible dream, ' and unbreakably linked to the progressive forces of our epoch"-the working-class struggle for power.