confront male prejudice or 'male power' They choose to highlight rape as an issue because it its in with their view of working class men All men dIc Ical tionary - the oppressors. All women al c tionary - the oppressed. Why not hang rapists and really punish the pressor?
Socialist feminists have to do more than contront male prejudice. We need a strategy for eradicating it. That strategy accords the working class, as a class, the central role establishing socialism.
possible argue that the working class 1S revolutionary class, because progressive role, and in the same breath say that working class men have no interest struggle for women's liberation.
My article argued that working class men have more to gain women's liberation than by defending the status quo.
As individuals, may have higher pay than women but as a class they will gain from equal pay because Class will be stronger. individuals, men are SCI Vice c by women aca class they would gain from a more communal form of domestic labour.
As individuals, men may gain from the sexual subjugation women, but as a class thev have no reason support the social double-standards of the ruling class which treat women as commodities.
For Marxists the term 'material interest' means class interest. I maintain that working-class men have no class interest in the oppression of women, or any other group.
The fact that working class men, particularly Post Oftice engineers. • WIlU are skilled workers, believe that they gain from the oppression of working class women is a popular fallacy war socaust erns ike Jenny would do well to argue against.
VALERIE COULTAS, Birmingham