Men must surrender in the Battle of the Sexes

 Reform in woman-man power relations in the US

"Men must surrender in the Battle of the Sexes "  - John Henry

In the US, in the last fifty years, feminism has won significant
victories in the law of divorce and child care,  material child support
from men to women enforced by the state power, thereby making
significant advances in a critical  area of "the personal being
political" or woman-man equality of power. I'd say of the main
political movements, the women's liberation movement has made the most
gains in the US in the recent decades.  Readily available divorce or no-fault divorce is a
cornerstone 'personal is political" or "personal relations are power
relations" plank of the women's liberation movement. It was in the
first Constitution of the Soviet Union back in 1918 or so. It was
recently attained in the US fifty or sixty years after being won in
the Soviet Union.  Divorce at the will of the woman ( or man) is an
extraordinary and qualitative change of the bourgeois institution of
marriage. It becomes the basis for child support to the woman mainly
and at the will of the women when coupled with overwhelming majority of
awards of
custody of minor children to the mother.  This combination of legal
elements is a basically a radical reform in woman-man power relations in
the US.

 The first progressive act of the Obama administration was to
pass a pay equity  for women act. This is a long term main goal of the working
class or materialist women's liberation movement, equal pay for equal
work.

Clara Zetkin, historical leader of the working
class or materialist women's liberation movement

http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/

Clara Zetkin Internet Archive

Zetkin, Clara (1857-1933)

A prominent figure in the German and international workers' movement, most notably in the struggles womens workers' movement. From 1895, a National Executive member of the German SPD, and on its left-wing; member of the Bookbinders Union in Stuttgart, and active in the Tailors and Seamstresses Union, becoming its provisional International Secretary in 1896, despite the fact that it was illegal for women to be members of trade unions in Germany at that time. As Secretary of the International Bureau of Socialist Women, Zetkin organised the Socialist Women's Conference in March 1915. Along with Alexandre Kollontai, Zetkin fought for unrestricted suffrage, and against the 'bourgeois feminist' position supporting the restriction of the vote by property or income. Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg led the left-wing and waged a fierce struggle against revisionism as well as the center represented by Kautsky. During the War joined the Spartacists along with Luxemburg and Liebknecht. A founding member of the German Communist Party in 1918 along with comrades including Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Became a delegate to the Reichstag from 1920; secretary of the International Women's Secretariat and member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International from 1921, but lived in Russia from 1924 until her death in 1933.

Writings:

Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious, October 1896

The Workers’ International Festival, May 1899

May Greetings from Stuttgart, May 1900

Social-Democracy & Woman Suffrage, 1906

For Adult Suffrage, May 1909

German Socialist Women’s Movement, October 1909

A Greeting from Abroad, May 1913

August Bebel Obituary, August 1913

German Women to Their Sisters in Great Britain, December 1913

The Duty of Working Women in War-Time, November 1914

The Women of Germany to the Women of Great Britain, January 1915

Rosa Luxemburg (intro to the Junius Pamphlet), May 1919

Karl Liebknecht, September 1919

Rosa Luxemburg, September 1919

Hail to the Third Socialist International!, 1919

In Defence of Rosa Luxemburg, 1919

Through Dictatorship to Democracy, 1919

The Situation in Germany, 1920

Lenin on the Women’s Question

A May-Day Message from Germany

Clara Zetkin in Moscow

Fraternal Greetings to the Communist Unity Convention, 1920

The Struggle Against New Imperialistic Wars, 1922

Organising Working Women, 1922

The Russian Revolution & the Fourth Congress of the Comintern, 1922

From the International of Word to the International of Deed

World Wide Field of Activity of the Comintern

To the Congress of the German Communist Party

Fascism, August 1923

Reminiscences of Lenin, 1924

From My Memorandum Book (An Interview with Lenin on the Woman Question)

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