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- To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imaging possibilities beyond that reality.
- The dream was replacing that culture of domination with a wolrd of patricipatory economics grounded in communalism and social democracy, a world without discrimination based on race or gender, a world where recognition of mutuality and interdependency would be the dominant ethos, a global ecological vision of how the planet can survive and how everyone on it can have access to peace and well-being.
- Seduced by class power and/or greater class mobility once they made strides in the existing social order fewer women were interested in working to dismantle that system.
  - Women of privilege (most of whom are white but not all) have rapidly invested in the sustained subordination of working-class and poor women.
- The movement needed to move way beyond equal rights agendas and start with basic issues like literacy campaigns that would embrace all women, but especially women of poorer groups.
- There is no feminist school, no feminist college. 
- While visionary feminist thinkers have understood our need for a broad-based feminist movement, one that addresses the needs of girls and boys, women and men, across class, we have not produce a body of visionary feminist theory written in an accessible language or shared through oral communication.
  - Today in academic circles much of the most celebrated feminist theory is written in a sophisticated jargon that only the well-educated can read.
  - Most people in our society do not have a basic understanding of feminism.
- We do have radio shows and a few television shows that highlight gender issues, but that it is not the same as highlighting feminism.
- Even though representations of domestic violence abound in mass media and discussions take place on every front, rarely does the public link ending make violence to ending male domination, to eradicating patriarchy.
- In mass media everyone raises the question of why this violence is taking place without linking it to patriarchal thinking.
- Unfortunately class elitism has shaped the direction of feminist thought. Most feminist thinkers/theorists do their work in the elite setting of the university.
  - For the most part we do not write children's books, teach in grade schools, or sustain a powerful lobby which has a constructive impact on what is taught in the public school.
- A collective door-to-door effort to spread the message of feminism is needed for the movement to begin anew, to start again with the basic premise that feminist politics is necessarily radical.
- Confusion about this inherent radicalism emerged as feminist activists moved away from challenging sexism in all its manifestations and focused solely on reforms.
  - Advancing the notion that there can be many "feminisms" has served the conservative and liberal political interests of women seeking status and privileged class power who were among the first group to use the term "powre feminists".
  - Granting women the civil right to have control over our bodies is a basic feminist principle.
- Parasitic class relations and the greed for wealth and power have led women to betray the interests of poor and working-class women.
  - Today many women want civil rights without feminism. They want the system of patriarchy to remain intact in the private sphere even as they desire equality in the public sphere.
- Visionary feminist thinkers have understood from the movement's inception that collusion with patriarchy, even patriarchal support of some aspects of feminist movement, will leave females vulnerable. We saw that rights gained without fundamental change in the systems that govern our lives could be easily taken away.
- Giving civil rights within patriarchy has proved dangerous because it has led women to think that we are better off than we are, that the structures of domination are changing.
- While the anti-feminist books tend to be written in an accessible language that appeals to a broad readership, there is no body of popular feminist theory that serves as a counter to their message.
- Visionary feminists have always understood the necessity of converting men. We know all the women in the world could become feminists but if men remain sexist our lives would still be diminished. Gender warfare would still be a norm.
  - It is urgent that men take up the banner of feminism and challenge patriarchy. The safety and continuation of life on the planet requires feminist conversion of men.
- We can work on behalf of feminism right where we are. We can begin to do the work on feminism at home, right where we live, educating ourselves and our loved ones.
- Radical visionary feminism encourages all of us to courageously examine our lives from the standpoint of gender, race, and class so that we can accurately understand our position within the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
- We are told again and again by patriarchal mass media, by sexist leaders, that feminism is dead, that it no longer has meaning.
- In a universe where mutuality is the norm, there may be times when all is not equal, but the consequence of that inequality will not be subordination, colonization, and dehumanization.
- Feminist politics aims to end domination to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peach.