anti-authoritarian people who in their
turn re-organize the society so that it
becomes a non-alienated human society,
free from war, hunger, and exploitation.
Rudi Dutschke
March 7, 1968
You do not teach someone to count only
up to eight. You do not say nine and ten
and beyond do not exist. You give people
everything or they are not able to count at
all. There is a real revolution or none at
all.
Pericles Korovessis, in an interview
in
I N T R O D U C T I O N
This book is an action, a political action where revolution is the goal. It has no other purpose. It is not cerebral wisdom, or academic horseshit, or ideas carved
in granite or destined for immortality. It is part o f a
process and its context is change. It is part o f a planetary movement to restructure community forms and human consciousness so that people have power over
their own lives, participate fully in community, live in
dignity and freedom.
T h e commitment to ending male dominance as the
fundamental psychological, political, and cultural reality o f earth-lived life is the fundamental revolutionary commitment. It is a commitment to transformation o f
the self and transformation o f the social reality on every
level. T h e core o f this book is an analysis o f sexism (that
system o f male dominance), what it is, how it operates
on us and in us. However, I do want to discuss briefly
two problems, tangential to that analysis, but still crucial
to the development o f revolutionary program and consciousness. T h e first is the nature o f the women’s movement as such, and the second has to do with the work o f the writer.
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Woman Hating
Until the appearance of the brilliant anthology
book
as oppressed people. Most women, it must be admitted,
still do not. But the women’s movement as a radical
liberation movement in Amerika can be dated from the
appearance of those two books. We learn as we reclaim
our herstory that there was a feminist movement which
organized around the attainment of the vote for
women. We learn that those feminists were also ardent
