1 The Problem of Marxism and Feminism Marxism and feminism are one and that one is Marxism Bridges, The Unhappy Marriage exuality is to feminism what work is to marxism: that U which is most one's own, yet most taken away. Marxist theory argues that society is fundamentally constructed of the relations people form as they do and make things needed to survive humanly Work is the social process of shaping and transforming the material and social worlds, creating people as social beings as they create value It is that activity by which people become who they are. Class is its structure, production its consequence, capital a congealed form, and control its issue Implicit in feminist theory is a parallel argument: the molding, direction, and expression of sexuality organizes society into two sexes women and men. This division underlies the totality of social lations. Sexuality is the social pr of gender are created, organized, expressed, and directed creating the social beings we know as women and men, as their relations create society. As work is to marxism, sexuality to feminism is socially ructed yet constructing, universal as activity yet. historically jointly comprised of matter and mind. As the organized iation of the work of some for the benefit of others defines a class, workers, the organized expropriation of the sexuality of some for the use of others defines the sex, woman. Heterosexuality is its social