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"A world where men and women would be equal is easy to visualize, for that precisely is what the Soviet Revolution promised." - Simone de Beauvoir,
The Second Sex (New York, Random House, 1952), p.806
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One of the most common arguments I see made against the notion that
feminism and Marxism are one in the same goes something like this:
"Feminism and Marxism aren't related because Stalin's policy of xyz was
certainly not feminist!" (or Mao's, or Pol Pot's or Gorbachev - take
your pick).
Another common argument goes like this:
"Russian women aren't raving feminists like American women, therefore, Marxism and feminism aren't related."
Well, all these things may be true, but, one must also realize that
Marxism is kinda like Christianity in that while it has a large
over-riding ideology, there are many different denominations with
varying beliefs. Lenin's
interpretation of Marxism was one such type, called Leninism, and when
Stalin took over he interpreted Marxism in a different way - over-riding
some of Lenin's beliefs - and thus becoming "Stalinism." Mao as well
interpreted Marxism differently from Stalin, and this became known as
"Maoism." So, just as it is false to say that Protestants aren't
Christians because they don't have a Pope and never go to confession, so
is it false to say that Marxism and feminism are unrelated because of
reason XYZ during Boris Yeltsin' s vodka soaked tenure at the helm.
Mostly when people such as myself assert that Marxism and feminism are
one in the same, it has a lot to do with the philosophies behind
Marxism, such as the oppressor vs. victim class, the use of the Marxist
dialectic to manipulate the population, the "end-goal" of Marxism &
feminism being remarkably similar, and most of all it comes from Engels'
own words (Marx made a few references to liberating women, but Engels
really got into it).
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