Beyond the fragments Book

This was a very interesting book. it was written in the earliest 70's and this version was updated/revised and reprinted in 1979 so much of the material is around specific arguments that were going on in british organizing at that time. however there is a lot in here that i think is relevant today - especially in light of the ongoing collapse of the swp (uk). it seems that some socialist groups never considered the organizational implications of the rising feminist movement of the 70's and only took a very narrow view of the movement and painted the whole thing as middle class and theoretically incorrect (patriarchy theory) and then dismissed the whole thing. my historical view of this debate and more importantly attempts to square feminism based on patriarchy theory and revolutionary socialism based on marxism was that it was all about theory. and in so far as it was about theory, the rejection of patriarchy as a theory in favor of marxism i believe is correct. however this debate was not simply one of theory. it was also one of practice and organization. and in this regard it is clear that the revolutionary left had/has a lot to learn from the feminist movement. as such i think that revolutionaries in the US have a lot to learn from the particular critiques this book raises. whether you end up agreeing or disagreeing with some of this, it is still a very useful read.