The exploitation of women should not be considered as a secondary element of the class struggle. These are interrelated processes, or to be more precise, a single process.
At that historical point where a man appropriated a woman, property – both patriarchal and private – arose: this property was a woman, her reproductive abilities and the product of her reproductive labor alienated from her – children as labor force and heirs. This is where private property begins, where socio-economic inequality begins, and where the oppression of women by men begins. Therefore, the history of society is not only the history of changing modes of production, but also the history of the development of reproductive relations.
Neither production nor reproduction can exist separately from each other. The production of material goods is impossible without the reproduction of labor power, just as reproduction itself is impossible without the basic support of production (food, housing, resources). This interconnection means that, first and foremost, relations – both productive and reproductive – underlie any form of social organization.
The socialist (feminist) revolution must take into account the need to transform not only productive but also reproductive forces and relations. The complete liberation of women requires both the destruction of class society and the development of technologies that eliminate society's dependence on biological reproduction. The development of reproductive technologies and the victory over aging will change traditional ideas about the family, childbirth and its necessity. In a communist society, where the state as an instrument of repression dies out, the family as its repressive agent loses its relevance too.
