Women, Race, & Class

The only significant steps toward ending domestic slavery have in fact been taken in the existing socialist countries. Working women, therefore, have a special and vital interest in the struggle for socialism. Moreover, under capitalism, campaigns for jobs on an equal basis with men, combined with movements for institutions such as subsidized public child care, contain an explosive revolutionary potential. This strategy calls into question the validity of monopoly capitalism and must ultimately point in the direction of socialism.

Would the housewives who felt they were “going crazy staying at home” welcome the idea of being paid for driving themselves crazy?

Psychological liberation can hardly be achieved simply by paying the housewife a wage.