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a NY 100218676 Lo jAL "Compadé Foster called for theoretieal mastery of the Woman question as vitally necessary to combat the numerous anti-woman prejudices prevalent in our capitalist society, and the ‘whole system of male superiority ideas which continue to play such an important part in woman's subjugation’, "Progressive and Communist men must become vanguard fighters against male supremacist ideas and for equal rights for women. Too often we observe in tha exnoression ane nracntice of Leabor-= proereasive de ho Wh Ne fe pe Sa fa bee lhe Nel eT ed ae te “ps “+ af be te oe ws and even some Communist, men glib talk about women tas allies! but no commensurate effort to combat male supremacy notions which hamper woman's ability to struggle for peace and security. Too many lLabor- progressive men, not excluding some Communists, resist the full participation of women, avow bourgeois tequalitarian' notions as regards women, tend to avoid full discussion of the woman question and shunt the problem aside with peremptory decisions. What the promotion of a sound theoretical understanding of this question would achieve for our Party is shown by the initlal results of the cadre training schools and seminars on the woman question, many of whose Students have begun seriously to tackle male supre- macist notions in relation to the major tasks of the movement and in relation to their own attitudes, "The manifestation of bourgeois feminism in the progressive woments movement and also in our Party is a direct result of the prevalence of male superiority ideas and shows the need for our women comrades to study the Marxist-Leninst teachings on thn traman Aaa td an AAAamAtiwaw +a thaumnenantoan FPamtwit ae Ville WALI Nh le fata Wb Noh ode SBS Wh ke LL Bevis & VM Lid lig woman's oppression stems, not from the capitalist system, but from men. Marxism-Leninism, just as it rejects and combats the petty-bourgeois 'equalitarianism! fostered by Social-Democracy, so it has nothing in common with the bourgeois idiocy of 'the battle of the sexes! or the itrrational Freudian tapproach! to the woman question. These false ideologies must