Claudia Jones--"Complete emancipation of women is possible only under Socialism."

[snot]

1. Interesting.

But apart from the fact that it's to the advantage of any unfairly dominant group to "divide and conquer" factions among the rest of society regardless of what the divisions are based on, I don't quite see why liberation of women is more of a logical necessity under socialism than under capitalism.

Indeed, it seems to me advantageous to capitalists to increase the pool of potential labor for hire by including women and other constituencies, so there will be more competition among them for jobs, reducing any pressure for wage increases.

And the post you refer to in itself seems to contradict the idea that women's liberation is really inherently more necessary or natural under socialism, insofar as it seems to document that there was in actual practice considerable resistance to women's lib within the socialist movement.

I don't mean to say the thesis is necessarily completely wrong; it just seems to me that there are countervailing tendencies, and how it all works together to produce the actual results we see is not entirely clear.