Marxist Feminism

Marxist Feminism
Women of the world unite! Social and Economic revolution "Night bomber regiment, 588!"
Basic Information
Aliases	Women Syndicalism MarxFem Mother Russia Marxism-Feminism Socialist Feminism Proletarian Feminism Left-Wing Feminism Left-Feminism Far-Left Feminism Genetic Kulak Literally the Night Witches
Alignment(s)	LeftUnity Culturally Revolutionary Feminists Socialists Communists
Ideological Information
Influenced by:	Autonomist Feminism (contemporary) Feminism Marxism
Influenced	Hoxhaism Johnson-Forest Tendency Leninism Marxism–Leninism Maoism Sankarism Xenofeminism
Notable people	Europe Karl Marx (1818-1883) Germany Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Germany Eleanor Marx (1855-1898) Germany Clara Zetkin (Eißner) (1857-1933) Germany Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) Poland/ Germany Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) UK Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) France Enver Hoxha (1908-1985) Albania Elena Ceaușescu (1916-1989) Romania Nexhmije Hoxha (1921-2020) Albania Margot Honecker (1927-2016) GDR Mirjana Marković (1942-2019) Serbia Silvia Federici (1942-) Italy/ USA Margherita Cagol (1945 - 1975) Italy Ash Sarkar (1992-) UK Asia Alexandra Kollontai (Domontovich) (1872-1952) Soviet Union Soong Ching-ling (1893-1981) China Mao Zedong (1893-1976) China Jiang Qing (1914-1991) China Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916-1974) Soviet Union Marina Raskova (1912-1943) Soviet Union Yevdokiya Bershanskaya (1913-1982) Soviet Union Khieu Ponnary (1920-2003) Cambodia Shamsiah Fakeh (1924-2008) Malaysia Ieng Thirith (1932-2015) Cambodia Leila Khaled (1944-) Palestine Fusako Shigenobu (1945-) Japan Võ Thị Thắng (1945-2014) Vietnam Chizuko Ueno (1948-) Japan Song Binbin (1949-) China Anuradha Ghandy (1954-2008) India Peng Liyuan (1962-) China (Debatably) Kim Yo-Jong (1987-), North Korea (Debatably) Yue Xin (1996-) China Luna Oi (?-), Vietnam Americas Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) USA / UK María Cano (1887-1967) Colombia Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) USA Raya Dunayevskaya (Shpigel) (1910-1987) USA Claudia Jones (Cumberbatch) (1915-1964) Trinidad and Tobago Grace Lee Boggs (Chin Yu Ping) (1915-2015) China/ USA Yuri Kochiyama (1921-2014) Japan/ USA Hebe de Bonafini (1928-2022) Argentina Angela Davis (1944-) USA Shulamith Firestone (Feuerstein) (1945-2012), USA Afeni Shakur (1947-2016) USA Gloria La Riva (1954-) USA Milagro Sala (1964-) Argentina Margaret Kimberly (?-) USA Luciana Genro (1971-) Brazil Kshama Sawant (1973-) India/ USA Patrisse Khan-Cullors (1983-) USA Abby Martin (1984-) USA Karol Cariola (1987-) Chile Camila Vallejo (1988-) Chile Fatimah Warner (noname) (1991-) USA Radio Free Amanda (?-) USA Sheila Xiao (?-), USA Africa Djamila Bouhired (1935-) Algeria Winnie Mandela (1936-2018) South Africa Thomas Sankara (1949-1987) Burkina Faso
Variations
Regional Tendencies	Angela Davis Thought Anti-Imperialism Anti-Zionism Black Marxism Communist Party USA (Formerly) Democratic Socialism (Later on) Left-Wing Populism Marxism Prison Abolitionism Revolutionary Progressivism Margot Honecker Thought Anti-Perestroika Anti-Westernism Euroscepticism Gerontocracy Honeckerism Mielkism National Communism Neo-Stalinism Ostalgie Overseas Juche Red Putinism Russophilia Mirjana Marković Thought/Yugoslav Left Anti-Westernism Capitalist Communism Communist Populism Dengism Greater Serbia Left Unity Milosevicism Neo-Titoism Rankovićism Russophilia Social Authoritarianism Stratocracy Yugonostalgie Yugoslavism (Self-proclaimed) Soong Ching-ling Thought Anti-Imperialism Anti-Cultural Revolution Anti-Chiangism Gung Ho (Sympathetic) Maoism (Sympathetic) Left-Wing Tridemism Left-Wing Nationalism Social Authoritarianism Progressivism Ho Chi Minh Thought (Sympathetic) Nexhmijeism Anti-Milosevicism Autocracy Capitalist Communism Clintonism (Symphatetic) Hoxhaism Interventionism (Yugoslavia) Marxism–Leninism Pragmatism
Character Information
Likes	Socialism Feminism Communal Kitchens & Launderettes
Dislikes	Capitalism Patriarchy Bourgeois "Feminists" The family unit
Song	Bread and Roses By Judy Collins Rebel Girl Union Maid Night Witches (Sabaton)

Marxist Feminism is a culturally revolutionary, economically left wing ideology who focuses on women's emancipation, gender equality, intersectionality, and the liberation of women through feminism and socialism.

Most of the times, she is depicted as an Authoritarian Leftist, even though there are also non-Authoritarian types.

Variants

Socialist Feminism

Socialist Feminism rose in the 1960's and 1970's as an offshoot of the feminist movement and New Left that focuses upon the interconnectivity of the patriarchy and capitalism.

Socialist Feminism is a two-pronged theory that broadens Marxist feminism's argument for the role of capitalism in the oppression of women and radical feminist theory of the role of gender and the patriarchy. Socialist feminists reject radical feminism's main claim that patriarchy is the only, or primary, source of oppression of women. Rather socialist feminists assert that women are oppressed due to their financial dependence on males.

Beliefs

Marxist Feminism believes that the oppression of women is directly caused and reinforced by Capitalism in order to increase the exploitation of the working class. According to Marxist Feminists, Patriarchy allows Capitalists to both keep female workers underpaid by threatening to replace them with "better working" men, as well as also more exploit male workers by threatening to replace them with "less demanding" women. So, by intentionally putting male and female workers at odds with each other bourgeoisie are preventing the proletariat from uniting against them.

MarxFem also argues that on top of the regular Capitalist exploitation female workers are also additionally exploited by domestic work (the so called "kitchen slavery"). So, in order to reach a true gender equality the burden of housework and caretaking should be taken away from women to collective social services, such as kindergartens, public kitchens, and public laundries.

Additionally, a lot of Marxist Feminists are opposed to family unit and the institution of marriage. According them, family was fundamentally created as a way to secure and reinforce private property rights, and marriage is a form of legalizing the woman's status as a property. As an alternative to family, Marxist Feminism advocates for sexual liberation and Free Love, while making raising children the responsibility of the whole community, rather than individual parents.

In MarxFem's view, one of the ways of achieving her goals is the creation of the special state-backed "Women's Committees", run by dedicated Marxist Feminists. Their role would be to directly promote and defend women's rights on the local and national level; propose and prepare gender equality related laws; and also agitate, educate, organise, and generally help working class women all across the country.

Marxist Feminism despises Bourgeois Feminism, saying that female Capitalists are oppressing the working women just as much as the male ones do. It also opposes Radical Feminist idea that the social status of women is somehow linked to their innate biological qualities, arguing of it instead being the direct product of the class society.

How to Draw

Flag of Marxist Feminism

The design of Marxist Feminism is a combination of the venus symbol (♀) to represent feminism and a hammer and sickle (☭) to represent Marxism. It uses a red and gold color scheme, which represents socialism.

1. Draw a ball,
2. Fill it with a purpleish dark blue
3. In a redish pink, draw a hammer pointing down, and a sickle pointed up, made to look like the venus symbol (♀),
4. Add the eyes,
5. Add a stale red bow, and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Purpleish dark blue	#3D3B6D	61, 59, 109
	Redish pink	#C94670	201, 70, 112
	Stale red	#9A3737	154, 55, 55
	Darker stale red (outline)	#361616	54, 22, 22

Relationships

Friends

• Marxism - Working women of all countries, unite!
• Leninism - Thank you for helping me liberating the Russian women, comrade!
• Maoism - Women hold up half of the sky!
• Marxism–Leninism - A revolution without a great brother and emancipation isn't a revolution, also he is the one who makes good food. Also, thanks for weakening the traditional family and promoting women in the labour force.
• Feminism - She is a great mother.
• Council Communism - "Miracles of enthusiasm to stimulate the productive forces and alleviate working conditions can only be performed by the initiative of the workers themselves, provided it is not restricted and repressed at every step by a hierarchy of permissions and decrees"- Alexandra Kollontai, 1921.
• Luxemburgism - A great feminist and Marxist!
• Hoxhaism - Socialist Albania was based.
• Syndicalism - Lizzy Flynn was based, just make sure you let women be members of your unions.

Frenemies

• Anarcha-Feminism - You need a proletarian state to crush the patriarchy.
• Conservative Socialism - I like your economic policies, but did you know that conservatism is oppressive?
• Libertarian Feminism - You claim to be a feminist, yet you uphold a system which oppresses women's rights by making them commodities for the system. Curious.
• Boseism - You seem super based, but you were a axis collaborator, so ye that sucks.

Enemies

• Liberal Feminism - One, she's a capitalist pawn, and two, I hate liberals, and three, no I don't want female drone pilots in anything. But I really like the Night Witches
• Capitalism - You dirty pig! You make women get less pay!
• Conservatism - Sexist pig.
• Conservative Feminism - Fake feminist.
• Maternalism - You are such a cringe. The woman can only be truly free when stereotypical families no longer exist!
• Radical Feminism - "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." - Simone de Beauvoir
• Objectivism - "fEmInIsM iS cOlLeCtIvIsT" Yes and that's actually based.
• Hoppeanism, Alt-Right Libertarianism, and National Capitalism - Sums up everything wrong with the patriarchal capitalist system.
• National Feminism - Wh...what?!? NAZI FEMINISM!!!
• Patriarchy - No more of the patriarchy!
• Neoliberalism - Imperialist garbage who doesn't care about working women in their sweatshops.
• Thatcherism - There is no such thing as "family": there's only society.
• Manosphere - Filthy incel, probably just another Alt-Right Nazi. What in the absolute fuck is "Sexual-Marxism"?
• Pink Capitalism - Fake and soulless progressive.
• Pinochetism - "Get into the helicopter"? How about no?
• Social Democracy - WHY THE F*CK DID YOU KILL ROSA, YOU FAKE SOCIALIST!?!
• Nazism - Still salty about Night Witches?
• Reactionary Liberalism - LITERALLY A REACTIONARY BOURGEOIS!!!!! THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD WILL OVERTHROW YOU AND EXECUTE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Further Information

Literature

• Love of Worker Bees by Alexandra Kollontai
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich
• The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
• No Logo by Naomi Klein
• International Socialist Conferences of Women Workers by Alexandra Kollontai
• The Social Basis of the Woman Question by Alexandra Kollontai
• Women Workers Struggle For Their Rights by Alexandra Kollontai
• The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman by Alexandra Kollontai
• The Soviet Woman — a Full and Equal Citizen of Her Country by Alexandra Kollontai
• Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism by Laurie Penny
• Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
• Feminism and the Marxist Movement by Mary-Alice Waters
• Transgender Marxism by Jules Joanne Gleeson, Elle O’Rourke, and Jordy Rosenberg
• The Woman Question by Paul Lafargue
• Philisophical Trends in the Feminist Movement by Anuradha Ghandy
• The Emancipation of Women from the writings of V.I. Lenin

Wikipedia

• Marxist Feminism
• Socialist Feminism
• Materialist Feminism

Online Communities

• R/AntiRadFem

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