Is there a link between Feminism & Communism?
Excerpt #1: "...Many early feminists and advocates of women's rights were considered left-wing by their contemporaries.[32] Feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft was influenced by the radical thinker Thomas Paine. Many notable leftists have been strong supporters of sexual equality, such as: the Marxists Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin and Alexandra Kollontai, the anarchist Emma Goldman, and the socialists Helen Keller and Annie Besant.[33][34] Marxists such as Clara Zetkin[35][36] and Alexandra Kollontai [37][38] however, though supporters of radical social equality for women, opposed feminism on the grounds that it was a bourgeois ideology. Marxists were responsible for organizing the first International Womens Day events. [39] In more recent times the women's liberation movement is closely connected to the New Left and other new social movements that challenged the orthodoxies of the Old Left. Socialist feminism (e.g.Freedom Socialist Party, Radical Women) and Marxist feminism (e.g. Selma James) saw themselves as a part of the left that challenged what they perceive to be male-dominated and sexist structures within the left. Liberal feminism is closely connected with left-liberalism, and the left-wing of mainstream American politics. (e.g. the National Organization for Women). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics ======================================… Excerpt#2: "...Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries, primarily Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet bloc. ......................................… The first IWD was observed on 19 March 1911 in Germany following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. --------------------------------------… Demonstrations marking International Women's Day in Russia proved to be the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917.[citation needed] Following the October Revolution, the Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai persuaded Lenin to make it an official holiday in the Soviet Union, and it was established, but was a working day until 1965. On May 8, 1965 by the decree of the USSR Presidium of the Supreme Soviet International Women's Day was declared as a non working day in the USSR "in commemoration of the outstanding merits of Soviet women in communistic construction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women's_Day
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Yes, funny thing about liberals feminist the defended adulator Clinton and abandoned Palin
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Some extreme feminists view capitalism as a patriarchal system. That is, they feel it is dominated by men. The only way (in their view) to achieve female-male equality and eliminate patriarchy is to eliminate capitalism. By establishing a socialist system, female-male equality was ensured. In this way, yes, some feminists are linked to communists.
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Modern feminism is nothing but institutionalized racism. It's nothing but the hatred and demonization of white Christian men.
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really? helen keller? derp derp bwaaaa!
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What a dumb-ass idea. Equal rights for people regardless of how they're born is called "democracy" or "civil rights". Communism is an ECONOMIC system.
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No. It's called equal rights for all. But I thank you kindly for exposing the Republican/right wing hate for and desire to subjugate women. ##
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Jesus, don't post on here until you learn the difference between social ideology, human rights, form of government, political system and economics.
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The link is tenuous at best. There are plenty of women out there who are successful on their own without the need for centralized economic planning. What you are really doing is denigrating women by saying that women are not competent to succeed in a capitalist system. There are plenty of successful businesswomen out there that prove you are sadly mistaken. You are also citing a defunct system that brought everybody down to the lowest common denominator. Most women I know want nothing to do with such a system. A Soviet-style economic system simply won't work. Stop clinging to a failed ideology, or trying to use feminism as a way of promoting your political aims.
