PERSPECTIVE OF WOMEN'S MOVEMENT 7 growing capitalist society with a small stratum of monopoly capitalists — allied to landlords and collaborating with imperialism—that the Indian people have been fighting and go on fighting. The successful culmination of this struggle would lead to the formation of a people's democratic state which, in its turn, would lay the basis for the establishment of socialist society, passing finally into Communism. Such is the perspective with which the democratic movement in general and the women's movement in particular have to advance. Uncompromising struggle against the precapitalist institutions of the caste, communal and tribal institutions; the completion of the rural people's struggle against landlord domination; full modernization of the entire economy, leading to rapid industrialization and giving employment to all able-bodied persons (men and women); energetic measures against all reactionary, obscurantist beliefs and institutions—these are the prerequisites for completely emancipating our womanhood. Working for such a real integration of the movement for the women's emancipation and the joint movement for democracy and socialism we have to carry on a relentless struggle as much against bourgeois and petty-bourgeois feminism' as against male chauvinism. The one (male chauvinism) is direct looking down upon any movement for genuine equality between men and women and is therefore clearly visible to everybody. The other however appears on the surface to be more 'radical'; it adopts a 'leftist^ and 'revolutionary' garb; it is therefore even more dangerous to the integration of the women's movement for their equality with men, and the common movement of the working people for ending all forms of precapitalist exploitation and, along with it, liquidating capitalism. In his well-known talk with Clara Zetskin, Lenin brought the issue into the correct perspective, pointing out how the struggle for women's equality is part of the revolutionary class struggle which the working people have to wage, the struggle which culminates in the division of society into an exploiting and exploited class. Just as in Lenin's day, so now, all sorts of nonclass 'leftist' slogans and movements are around us. Suggestions are made in some such 'left' circles that the aim of any movement for women's equality should be the elimination of the family. Apparently 'radical' ideas are set forth that the biological requirements of sex can be met in innumerable ways other than the marriage and the family; the problem of bringing up children too, it is suggested, can be solved through the organization of what are called 'baby farms' which would free the women from the labours of motherhood. The question is naively asked: Is it not possible for science to device ways and means of modernizing the process of child birth and upbringing? One cannot foresee now what will be the type of relations that will subsist between men and women when the present class society is made to give place to a new classless society. That will be known only