Katrina Forrester

There is an understandable reaction to the incorporation of feminism into the state.

The tactic of working in and against the state, as described by Katrina Forrester, has become focused on the in part and often ending protecting those with privilege.

But there is an alternative revolutionary tradition, one that centres class struggle around immediate needs while revealing reality of the state and building a movement capable of confronting this.

Katrina Forrester discusses this in, quote, feminist demands and the problem of housework, end quote, counterposing the demand for wages for housework to that for the socialisation of housework.

She argues that wages for housework inhabited an oppositional enclave, a protected space that allowed for the generation of insights but did not pave a route, especially to those beyond the revolutionary movement to fundamental change.

The demand for socialisation alongside campaigns of unionisation function to, quote, create constituencies and to disclose distinctive social conditions beyond the fact of women's exploitation, end quote.