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A response to Krtek's question. Let us asses on how the modern-day Left with its Westernized, liberal values, claiming to be "progressive", while forcing acceptance of bourgeois elitism, has also affected women negatively. Many wrong assumptions and answers are made on this question. Feminism is rooted within leftism but that feminism is long gone for it now serves the very thing it fought against in the past. Marxist perspective offers the critique that due to the ruling elite promoting patriarchal norms but also discrediting men who are not fitting of the "masculine" image espoused by the elite, that both men and women should consider abolishing these destructive norms that divide them based on their biological sex.
A common critique of the Left and its failure to support female proletariat is in the basis of the growing number of liberals supporting sex work and pornography (both bourgeois degeneracies that degrade women) under the guise of "liberation" or "sex positivity". The liberals of this mainstream "Left" (don't laugh!) have labeled opposition to bourgeois practice of sex work as "right-wing talking point", associating the emancipation of women from sexual wage slavery as a "reactionary SWERF ideology". Whether this is an intended satire or a genuine reality, there are indeed those who call themselves "leftist" and yet support contrarian points such as defending sex work. People who claim sex work is inherently exploitative are not demonizing sex workers. The argument is if sex work is accepted then it encourages and normalizes men seeing women’s bodies as commodities which is not good.
Let's not forget the "radfems" and how instead of blaming capitalism, they blame the inherent nature of a man as "evil" and that it must be bygone with. That is also not the correct stance to take on. While Engels was a man who first proposed a Marxist take on feminism (though incorrectly stating that emancipation of women is when they leave their homes) in the 1884 book, Lenin as well as socialist states furthered the cause of gender equality. Per Article 122 of the 1936 constitution, "Women in the USSR are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social, and political life.". The first woman to space was Valentina Vladimirova Tereshkova in 1963. Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a female sniper whose kill count of 309 made her the female version of "White Death" (Simo Hayha). Female workforce arose to nearly 900,000 from 423,000 between 1923 and 1930 and marriages were separated from the church. The fall of USSR damaged women's rights in post-Soviet countries where high rates of SA were reported. In 1995, 70% of Women were unemployed. Prostitution increased dramatically in the 1990s after the fall of communism.
It is clear that the Left failed both men and women.
A common critique of the Left and its failure to support female proletariat is in the basis of the growing number of liberals supporting sex work and pornography (both bourgeois degeneracies that degrade women) under the guise of "liberation" or "sex positivity". The liberals of this mainstream "Left" (don't laugh!) have labeled opposition to bourgeois practice of sex work as "right-wing talking point", associating the emancipation of women from sexual wage slavery as a "reactionary SWERF ideology". Whether this is an intended satire or a genuine reality, there are indeed those who call themselves "leftist" and yet support contrarian points such as defending sex work. People who claim sex work is inherently exploitative are not demonizing sex workers. The argument is if sex work is accepted then it encourages and normalizes men seeing women’s bodies as commodities which is not good.
Let's not forget the "radfems" and how instead of blaming capitalism, they blame the inherent nature of a man as "evil" and that it must be bygone with. That is also not the correct stance to take on. While Engels was a man who first proposed a Marxist take on feminism (though incorrectly stating that emancipation of women is when they leave their homes) in the 1884 book, Lenin as well as socialist states furthered the cause of gender equality. Per Article 122 of the 1936 constitution, "Women in the USSR are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social, and political life.". The first woman to space was Valentina Vladimirova Tereshkova in 1963. Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a female sniper whose kill count of 309 made her the female version of "White Death" (Simo Hayha). Female workforce arose to nearly 900,000 from 423,000 between 1923 and 1930 and marriages were separated from the church. The fall of USSR damaged women's rights in post-Soviet countries where high rates of SA were reported. In 1995, 70% of Women were unemployed. Prostitution increased dramatically in the 1990s after the fall of communism.
It is clear that the Left failed both men and women.
