Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 33 No. 15 1970
SDS and Women's Liberation
SDS and Women's Liberation
Students for a Democratic Society needs a clear, accurate class analysis of the special oppression of women and a Marxist program for women's liberation.
The existing women's liberation movement, both liberal and radical, seems to see sex as the basic "class-division" in society. This low level of theoretical development means an opportunity for Marxists to intervene with a working-class line. However we will render our intervention useless if we cling to an oversimplified analysis that the only from of oppression is class oppression and confine our interest to the economic superexploitation of women workers.
The class question is the decisive issue in class society. However, other additional types of oppression do exit as well—e.g., racial oppression, national oppression, women's oppression.
The SDS resolution passed by the June convention did not provide a correct analysis or program.