Frninisn, Alaris, alethe A alle savile of a parasite"lut fails to consider her commonality with the cern of revolutionary leadership for ending women,'s confinement to n woan who is the slave of a slave. In the case of bourgeois raditional roles tov often seems limited king their labor available amen, Io linit the analysis of women's relationship to capitalism to to the regime, leading feminists to wonder whose interests are served by To fail his version of liberation. Women become as free as men to work outside d, tlis in the case of proletarian women is to miss its vicarious aspec the home while men remain free from work within it. This also occul as of women's situation in socialist countries, under capitalism. When woman,'s labo ilitancy suits the needs of aIt hough not conclusive on the contribution of marxist theory to under- emergency, she is sucldlenly man's equal, only to regress when the ling womens situation, havc supported the theor ai critique. In urgency recedes. Feminist ts do not argue that it san tIe feminist view, these countries have solved many social problem women to be on the bottom in a feudal regime, a capitalist regime, and a tlination not included The criticism is not that socialism socialist regime; the commonality argued is thaL, despite real changes, is not automatically liberated women in the process of transforming bottom is bottom P'Itlucticn(assuming that this transformation is occurring). Nor is it to Where such attitudes and practices come to be criticized, as in Cuba cliHinish the significance of such changes for women: "There is a dif- or China, changes appear gradual and precarious, even where the effor ene lx Iwten a society in which sexism is expressed in the form of n:alk inlan ic ile and a socicty in which sexism takes the form of un- on the Central Commitee. And the difference same way, as a class analysis of sex would (and in some cases did)pre. artil dl>ing for. "12 The criticism is rather that these countries do not lict. 4 Neither technology nor socialism, both of which purport to alter lIl ke il Priority of working for women that distinguishes them from women's role at the point of procluction, have ever yet equalized wor uonstxialisl stxietics (a pitalist countries value women in terms of thei cns stattls relative lo men the feminist view, nothing has. At nerit"by male standards; in socialist countries women are invisible minimum, a scparate effort appears required-an effort that can be exeept in their capacity as"workers, "a term that seldom includes wom shaped by revolutionary regime and work relations--but a separate ef. r'lI's distinctive work: housework, sexual service, childbearing. The con- fort nonetheless. In light of these experiences, women's struggles whether under capitalist or socialist regime In coion with each other than with leftist struggles anywhere. Attempts to create a synthesis between marxism and feminism. . July-August 1976/: 88-i0y"nd the Structure of Conscription, "MonthbyRrviear 28,no.3 Pa\che k: Monopoly Stacey (nl. II alove) ed. Typically they begin with th ruili as cle women,qualified lay reservations l nec a (Sardo n. The Fouwith Mownim in (cambridge, Mla Working Papers. 1975) 02 ne w'itk n.N. Princeton University Press, 1978), Pp. 392-47vihilism, and Halshewisar(Prince- 14. See Fidel Castro, Ilomen and the Caban Rewnlntion(New York: Pathfinder Press When Patriarchy k guilin,mre the C:hinese Family ofCulkn Women, "NoNtImber 24, 1974, Cuba Revin 4(December 1974): 17-23. Stephani tl-1 12: Jalia Kristeva. buuf Chine Urla ang, i Rraofutiul within a Rrolwliou: Owen in Guinen-Hiusau(Boston: New England :ss, I.l. ).Ilis lild: Sttl, IJea Suciclisan ra/ruM Eastern Europe (o . l Ns. I e at un Preas, 1974); Ma garet R nall, CubaN l ulmen ate(Toronto: Womens " gs.1949-1973,Aoc elisabeth Srull, ed, The IYowmrew's lowe meut in China: A Selection of o『 women by men(see 197-i) from Underdevelopment: isctssicn by Stuart Schram, The Palitical Though! of Alao Tse-Tuag(New York: Pnaege rhy nd the Case for Saciclisf Fewinisan, of sex as bourgeois deviation(see Croll, ed, Pp. 19, 22 Review press, 1979). 12. Barbara Ehrenreich, What Is Socialist Feminism:"WIn(-June 3, 1976), reprint which the lauer loca reflect is express on the Woman Question, "excerpted as appendix in The lOmAmi Question(New York: difficulty separator sh- Even ; un the Central Committee "("Notes of an Ex-China Fan, llage Vaire, quoted in Batya Weinbaum, The Curious Cusrtship f wommen's Liberation and Su inline[Bestem: South Ea Press, 137 78].p7