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Redstockings and The Feminists were both radical feminist organizations, but held rather distinct views.

Most members of Redstockings held to a materialist and anti-psychologistic view.

They viewed men's oppression of women as ongoing and deliberate, holding individual men responsible for this oppression, viewing institutions and systems ( including the family ) as mere vehicles of conscious male intent, and rejecting psychologistic explanations of female submissiveness as blaming women for collaboration in their own oppression.

They held to a view — which Willis would later describe as " neo-Maoist "— that it would be possible to unite all or virtually all women, as a class, to confront this oppression by personally confronting men.