I’m always a bit bemused by how young feminists will claim that feminism has nothing to do with Communism. In fact, it is a direct outgrowth.
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Which is why the Communists always gave women equal rights, didn't they?
Oh, wait. No they didn't.
Say what? How does an economic system connect with gender equality?
What about us not-so-young feminists? We remember communist Russia and China, and feminism wasn't big with either of them. Sure, both were more or less perverted versions of Communism, but still...
@Ultimate Paragon
Actually, yes. Apart from a few rights that women lack in most western countries today, anyway. Of course society could be more backward than official policy but, other things equal, communist governments almost invariably helped female equality. Anyway, communist policies being de-facto favourable to female equality (which is not the same thing as feminism being pro-communist) is a point in favour of communism, not a point against feminism.
Not really, although there is an obvious relationship between being against economic exploitation and doing unpaid or lowpaid domestic work, etc, and so many of the old wave of feminists were also socialists. But as usual, the men's rights folk are conflating all the different kinds of feminism into a big, bad, strawman (or straw-woman) feminism and spend all their time attacking it.
Yes, yes, we know, everything that disturbs annoys or confuses you, such as feminism, gun control and national health care all falls under the heading of "Communism."
No. It's a direct outgrowth, in the English-speaking world, of Abolitionism. In Russia, it had similar roots, arising from the various emancipationist and populist movements that came into being in the early Nineteenth Century.
Meanwhile, W. F.... without you, what a Priceless world!
What the hell? Wait, I need my fundie dictionary. Let's see....
Communist (n)- 1. Anyone you don't like
2. Something to do with one of the Marx brothers, or something syn. Nazis, liberals, Muslims, refer to definition 1 for further synonyms
Is it really? If that were true, the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam would be paradises on Earth for women. And yet, not so much.
I remember reading about how Karl Marx invented a time machine and, becoming a Drag Queen named Carlotta, secretly started the femminist movement. It was right under the article about the Nazis sending astronauts to the Moon on V2 rockets. It was written down in Weekly World News, so it must be true!
That'd be a bonus plus point for Communism rather than a knock against feminism. But, sure, try to associate everything you don't like with Communism to try to make it look bad... That's the American way.
If feminism is a direct outgrowth of communism, and the men's rights movement is a direct outgrowth of feminism, then by that rationale, men's rights activists are feminists AND communists.
Confused?
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