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Speech by HELKE SANDER, representative of the Action Council for the Liberation, By the present separation between private life and social life, women are persistently thrown back into individual conflots requiring solutions in the private sphere.They are still educated for private life, for the fails, which, for its pert, is dependent on the conditions of production against which me are struggling-The education for a specific role, the inculcated feeling of inferiority, the contradiction their own expectations and the demands of sockety e11 generate a constant feeling of guilt for being unable to do justice to the demande put upon them, for having to choose betreen alternetives which in esch case involve the renanciation of vital needs/ 10a et 0z Most women are not political, because polities has hitherto always been defined, one-aidedly, and has never included their neede.They ere thereforeforced to peraiet in their appel to the suthority ofthe lew as they have not become aware of the fact that the realiestion of their demands will break through the The essiest groups to be politicised are educated, wowen with ehildren-They are the most aggressive and are the lecst vooal.Those women who today are in a position to study, do not owe this snuch to the bourgeois movement of emancipation,as to econonie necessity, and when they have children, they find themselves thrown back into old behaviour patterns, which, thanka to these emanoipation, they had already overcome Their studies are discontinued or deleged end their intellicturi development comes to & standatill or le coneiderably reducedy reeult of the demands of the family Added to this ials. the issecurity arising out of the faot thet they have not succeeded in reğolving the confliet between being & blue-stocking and becoming a houserife, between butlding up a eareer, which has itself to be paid for with a considerable loss of happiness, or beconing a woman in the aphere 6f consumption. In ather°s words it da especially these moze conselous women who have learned through experience that the long bourgeois rond to emancipation ie the wrong one, and who have learned that they cannot emancipate themselves through the competative atruggle-They have learned that the general principle of productivity hea beoome the decisive factor within existing conditions, and that the road to manoiation in proditioned by the nd wai ernie 3 da These wonen learn very quickly when they have children that all their privileges eze of no use to them and they are thee the first to be in a position to thron the cloma struggle into married life and into existing conditions.
Thus the man finde himself in the objective mole of the exploiter or close enemy, which, of course he does nåt want subjeotively, but which has also it vod been forced on him by a soclety based on the productivity prineiple and which of Vonen, to the S.D.8. in Frenkfurt. boundaries of the aysten.- Fight on thie scrap heap mape out for him the role he has to ploy. of soclal life, which 1a synonymous with carrying cimontos tot Ф09a909 toa 9715 014cbaz100 Vail
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We cannot solve the problem of the oppresaion of women individually, and we cannot wait for ite golution until after the revolution as a mere political end econonio revolution does not abolieh the represelon of private life,as in We atruggle for conditione of life which wt11 eliminate competition between man and woman. This is only possible by trensformation of the productive relatione, and with it pf power relations in order to crecte a truly democratic As women with children diaplay the gresteat preparedness for solidority and are bost ready to be politicised,re concentrated our sotivity on their conflicts This does not noan that se do not take serionly the conflisteriftitudents without children, not does 1t mean that in apite of the/common to all oppressed women, we are not avare of the specifio mechaniems of enlas oppression:it merely means that we want to work as effectively es possible and that me have to treate a tärting point which will permit us to approsch the problem in An the intial efforts made by us to deal with these conflicts together with the SyD.S. and within the S.D.S. foiled,we withdrew and worked on our own. when we atarted holf e year ago nost comrades made fun of us Now they reproach us for having withdraw, they try to prove to un that we have entirely wrong theories, they try to impute to us the opinion that women do not need men for their ennnoipetion and similer Idiocies,none of which me have ever maintained.
They eaphpaise that they too are oppressed, which we kney in any case-Ve merely gaanot see why se should any longer eccept their oppression, with which they An turn oppress us, without defending ourselves against it It is precisely begeuse we are of the opinion that emancipation 1e only possible an an overall societ. conslate of more women than men and At de high time thot we raised the olgipe. planning Should the SDS hot be able to advance rapidly to this insight, then we she11 have to embark on a power struggle, comethingive would much rother aroid.it would be a waste of energy on out partifor we chall win this struggleven oin Both the helplesspess, and the arrogance, we have been forced to show here does We are helplees because we feel that se ought to be able to expect from progreseiva men that they underatand the explosive cherocter of our confliots-Qur arrogance is the result of bur Ineight thet you brersuch blockhends, that you cannot see thrt without the leaat help fron you, people to whom you have never given a single thought, have suddenly organised themselves, and, coreover, in numbere, which you would teke for the beginning of the new dawn if they were workers.
Comrades!Our meetings are unbearablelYou are riddled with inhibitions which you have to release an aggression ageinet conredes who say something stupid or that you alredy know........ Why don't you diacuss before you plan your campeigne how they can be executed?hy do you all buy Reich Why do you speak here about alasa struggle, and et home about orgase difficulties?le that not a subject for society. a ayatematic and rational way. flowing thon not give us pleasure. demonatroted in the socieliet countries. historioally right 1s on our sidest -9n9 snothibaop snideb the pressions we w111 not tolerate any longer.• 2. 100dd akada 2129 the ad demanded that there it be conned #HolE 91E at least once that, 80 80