Kollontai : Communism and the Family
The decree of the Council of People’s Commissars issued on 18 December 1917 means that divorce is, no longer a luxury that only the rich can afford; henceforth, a working woman will not have to petition for months or even for years to secure the right to live separately from a husband who beats her and makes her life a misery with his drunkenness and uncouth behaviour.
There's some kind of joke I could make about a woman leading a violent revolution and her first action being to make divorce easier...
They have not yet understood that a woman must accustom herself to seek and find support in the collective and in society, and not from the individual man.
Communism is an inherently feminine ideology. It's based off leeching off those who put in more effort in life than you do.
There is no point in not facing up to the truth: the old family in which the man was everything and the woman nothing, the typical family where the woman had no will of her own, no time of her own and no money of her own, is changing before our very eyes.
The Patriarchy™ was a strong theme of Kollontai's beliefs and a very large part of why communism won in Russia at the time - Women fully supported the communists because they thought they'd get a cut of everyone else's efforts.
Their contribution to the rise of communism was so great that Kollontai was allowed to create the Zhenotdel, which was the Soviet equivalent to what Europe calls "Minister for Women and Equality".
Lenin even gave them a day to commemorate their efforts. March 8th, what is now International Women's Day.
What kind of family life they must have can easily be imagined. What kind of “family life” can there be if the wife and mother is out at work for at least eight hours and, counting the travelling, is away from home for ten hours a day?
The communist sounds like the worst TD tradcucks talking about "muh stay at home mothers."
Capitalism has placed a crushing burden on woman’s shoulders: it has made her a wage-worker without having reduced her cares as housekeeper or mother. Woman staggers beneath the weight of this triple load. She suffers, her face is always wet with tears. Life has never been easy for woman, but never has her lot been harder and more desperate than that of the millions of working women under the capitalist yoke in this heyday of factory production.
The family breaks down as more and more women go out to work.
100,000,000 lives lost because a fucking woman decided that working and raising kids was just too hard. No surprise that the anti-communism right just happens to forget that motive. Just like they forgot transgenderism was discussed as a feminist weapon in the SCUM Manifesto when they call women victims of it.
Women’s work is becoming less useful to the community as a whole.
First bit of truth in the whole wall of text, Alexandra. Congratulations.
Also, this was written in 1920. That's how far back that women were already scared that they would be made irrelevant.
A great universal family of workers will develop, in which all the workers, men and women, will above all be comrades. This is what relations between men and women, in the communist society will be like.
100,000,000 dead because a fucking woman wanted to create a simp harem.
Let's just take a moment to think about that one.
Yes, I would rather have my kid(s) be raised by social media and other mind poison, eat fast food everyday and live in filth, sacrifice my and my children's quality of life instead of having a woman take care of all of that, because for a family it's obviously better to have the mother waste 10 hours out of her day working some shit cashier job or entry level in amazon warehouse, jobs that will be automated eventually anyways.
Yes, nevermind the amount of jews among the bolsheviks as usual, 10s of millions of Russians and other nationalities (including my own people sent to Gulags) died because of the feminist actually, you're such a disgusting fucking retard.
Even Lenin himself credited Kollontai's feminist rallies as the catalyst for the collapse of the Tsar.
You're just making yourself look stupid here.
First of, the revolution happening was just a matter of time, to claim that her rallies were the catalyst for the revolution is retarded, even for you. Second, the reason why this revolution was waiting to happen is because of the first revolution in 1905, by 1917 there was already decades of pent up anger towards the Empire and the Tsar, because as you can imagine, the common man didn't really live a great life as per usual under any Russian governance. Third, as much as I hate the bolshevik scum, the 1917 revolution was useful for Finland to gain independence.
She also remained under Lenin, and she was so influential that under Stalin she ran to Sweden when Stalin went on a rampage killing everything in his way, including just about everyone she found dear in her life, truly some incredible influence she wielded.
Who's making himself look stupid here, me, or the retard who claims that 10s of millions were killed under the Soviets because of feminism?
Please look into Mao's China and the great leap forward, I want to see the creative way you'll fit your feminist angle there, you've already demonstrated your expertise with Hitler's Germany and now the USSR, after Mao's China you can do North Korea.
Yes...that kind of proves she did have influence over early Communism...that's how communists operate. They kill those that came before them because the most likely person to take down a revolutionary is another revolutionary.