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
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialist Feminism Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
Socialist Feminism rose in the 1960's and 1970's as an offshoot of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination feminist movement and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination New Left that focuses upon the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination interconnectivity of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination patriarchy and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination capitalism.
Socialist Feminism is a two-pronged theory that broadens Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxist feminism's argument for the role of capitalism in the oppression of women and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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.
History
Beliefs
Marxist Feminism believes that the oppression of women is directly caused and reinforced by Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Capitalism in order to increase the exploitation of the working class. According to Marxist Feminists, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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 Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Bourgeois Feminism, saying that female Capitalists are oppressing the working women just as much as the male ones do. It also opposes Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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
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.
- Draw a ball,
- Fill it with red,
- Draw a gold sickle, intersected with a gold venus symbol (♀),
- Add the eyes,
- Add a red and gold bow, and you're done!
| Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | #FF0000 | 255, 0, 0 | |
| Gold | #FFD700 | 255, 215, 0 | |
Relationships
Friends
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxism - Working women of all countries, unite!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Leninism - Thank you for helping me liberating the Russian women, comrade!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxism–Leninism - A revolution without a great brother and emancipation isn't a revolution, also he is the one who makes good food.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Stalinism - Thanks for weakening the nuclear family and promoting women in the labour force.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Feminism - She is a great mother.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Luxemburgism - A great feminist and Marxist!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Maoism - Women hold up half of the sky!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Hoxhaism - Socialist Albania was based.
Frenemies
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcha-Feminism - You need a proletarian state to crush the patriarchy.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Conservative Socialism - I like your economic policies, but did you know that conservatism is oppressive?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Feminism - She is just a capitalist b*tch. But she's actually nice, to a certain extent, and she is kinda cool for letting women do whatever they want, like crushing the patriarchy.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Boseism - You seem super based, but you were a axis collaborator, so ye that sucks.
Enemies
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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 - Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Capitalism - You dirty pig! You make women get less pay!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Conservatism - Sexist pig.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Conservative Feminism - Fake feminist.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Maternalism - You are such a cringe. The woman can only be truely free, when families no longer exist!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Radical Feminism - "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." - Simone de Beauvoir
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Objectivism - "fEmInIsM iS cOlLeCtIvIsT" Yes and that's actually based.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Hoppeanism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Alt-Right Libertarianism, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Capitalism - Sums up everything wrong with the patriarchal capitalist system.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Feminism - Wh...what?!?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Patriarchy - Gulag the patriarchy...
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neoliberalism - Imperialist garbage who doesn't care about working women in their sweatshops.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Thatcherism - There is no such thing as "family": there's only society.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Manosphere - Filthy incel, probably just another Alt-Right Nazi, wait, what is this talk about establishing "Sexual-Marxism", and calling me a "Genetic-Kulak"? Where the heck are you taking me? The "Sex-Gulags"??? What reactionary BS are you talki- WAIT... NOOOOOO! I DON'T WANNA BE BRED! NOOOOOOOOO!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Carl Benjamin Thought - Same with you, Carl
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Pink Capitalism- Fake and soulless progressive
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Pinochetism - "Get into the helicopter"? How about no?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Democracy - WHY THE F*CK DID YOU KILL ROSA, YOU FAKE SOCIALIST!?!
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
Gallery
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- ↑ "The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights."
- ↑ "China is a very poor country. We don't have much. What we have in excess is women. ... Let them go to your place [The United States]. They will create disasters. That way you can lessen our burdens."