The struggle for socialism is completely intertwined with the fight for women's liberation. Overcoming the repression and exploitation of women is an essential component of overcoming the subjugation of the entire working class.

There is no doubt that women were oppressed in many feudal societies before the advent of capitalism. Yet there were also pre-capitalist communal (communist) societies where the position of women in society was much better than under capitalism. One of these was the Iroquois Confederacy where their form of democracy was one where women were central to making decisions.

The Iroquois Confederacy was a voluntary union of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations. Land was owned communally by the clans. Through cooperation the agricultural produce needed to feed the people was grown.

The clans were run by women. The clans would then decide on which male representative of they would agree to send to the Confederate government.

It was essential for the capitalists to destroy these communal societies in order to impose their system of exploitation on what is now called the United States.