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6 SOCIALIST ACTION SEPTEMBER 1985 sphere, the home. Capitalist ideology uses the family to give men a stake in the present system, a place where all men regardless of their social status are promised a live-in domestic and sexual servant and children to control.
Men are taught that to cause pain is masculine and to express pain is feminine. When they batter or otherwise dominate their families they can experience what they have been taught is masculinity. Women are the targets because there is no fear of punishment or retribution—as opposed to the consquences of attacking an employer or the police.
Children are victims of violence at and get out in the streets to demand and affirm our equality. Our demands must reach and mobilize women who were ignored or alienated by the '70s movement. We must act again as a vital and viable political force, because no onenot the courts, not the police, not the legislature, not even a female vice president—is going to hold our oppressors accountable but us.
Women need real power, the kind that only comes through united struggle for our concrete economic and social needs. Spending a lot of time in court suing pornographers isn't going to further anyone's revolution.