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mobilized.
26 A relentless struggle should be waged against superstition and taboos and all communal, caste and other obscurantist attitudes among the people.
The struggle for achieving the demands set out above is obviously hard and complex to be sustained by women, and their organizations will have a very important role to play. The immediate task is to draw women into organizations at various levels in terms of common occupation or trade, geographical area or place of work. Each of their day-to-day problems has to be taken up and it is through such a process of struggle coupled with organized education that the necessary level of consciousness of women can be attained. All this however can and should be done, as a part of, and in alliance with, the general democratic movement of different sections of the working people. It is when working men fight unitedly with women that the primary condition for abolition of male domination is created. At the same time, women have to realize that it is only by eradication of all inequalities that their exploitation can be abolished.
It is the conditions under which women in India today are forced to live and work, which constitute their prison. The biggest enemy is the very system which engenders these conditions. The basic feature of this system is the monopoly ownership in both land and industry by the few. But the system is a totality of all the economic, social, cultural and psychological conditions of existence. Male chauvinism and its acceptance by women is the result of centuries of development which gave rise to this psychology.
Crucial to the emancipation of women and all of oppressed mankind, is the struggle to liquidate landlordism, monopoly capitalism and all other forms of exploitation, and their replacement by a democratic society leading to socialism in which alone can complete liberation of woman and man be realized.