Of course activists addressed income differentials, rape, abortion, etc. But they also looked closely at the nuclear family and the sex-defined roles of motherhood and fatherhood and began to develop alternative visions to these underlying bases for patriarchy. I think this effort was beyond liberalism, but I don't think today's feminism has maintained this facet of focus. Here, during the same period there emerged not only movements trying to better the plight of those enduring culturally based oppressions, but also efforts to conceive of something beyond racism, ethnocentrism, religious bigotry, etc. This approach came from the Black Panthers, I believe, and at the time it went under the name intercommunalism.
Variants persist today too, under the label multiculturalism.
So here, while the vision isn't yet as secure, deep, and powerful as we might like, there is, I think, on-going life beyond liberalism. A quarter century ago there was not only an effort to enfranchise more people and to reduce the violations committed by the then current state, but also to conceive something beyond parliamentary democracy, a new goal which was then called participatory democracy. Over the years this agenda drifted out of many activists' attention spans, I think, but now it is coming back, in modified and updated forms, at the hands of a new generation of young anarchist activists who are thinking and organizing hard on these matters, and who are, therefore, I think, to the left of liberalism. And now the economy. At the conference I proposed the following conundrum.