ABSTRACT
Feminists have a specific critique of state services and social security because of the way women are made individually dependent on men and yoked with the state in meeting needs. There are two key guidelines for planning any socialist welfare policy in capitalist society: (1) advances are possible, because popular demands are not merely antithetical to capitalist interests, but (2) advances that would destroy the capital-labour relation cannot be achieved under capitalism. In this context the feminist campaign for ‘disaggregation’ is a promising one. Feminist campaigns involve work within and in alliance with many existing organisations and men should recognise that feminist demands are central to any socialist strategy on social policy.
