Posted on 09/26/2017 9:41:16 AM PDT by EdnaMode
My grandmother likes to tell stories from her career as a journalist in the early decades of the People’s Republic of China. She recalls scrawling down Chairman Mao’s latest pronouncements as they came through loudspeakers and talking with joyous peasants from the newly collectivized countryside. In what was her career highlight, she turned an anonymous candy salesman into a national labor hero with glowing praises for his service to the people.
She had grown up in the central province of Hunan, where her father was a landlord. She talks about her mother as a glum housewife who resented her husband for taking a concubine after she had failed to give birth to a boy.
“The Communists did many terrible things,” my grandmother always says at the end of her reminiscences. “But they made women’s lives much better.”
That often-repeated dictum sums up the popular perception of Mao Zedong’s legacy regarding women in China. As every Chinese schoolchild learns in history class, the Communists rescued peasant daughters from urban brothels and ushered cloistered wives into factories, liberating them from the oppression of Confucian patriarchy and imperialist threat.
But the narrative of an across-the-board elevation of women’s status under Mao contains crucial caveats.
While the Communist revolution brought women more job opportunities, it also made their interests subordinate to collective goals. Stopping at the household doorstep, Mao’s words and policies did little to alleviate women’s domestic burdens like housework and child care. And by inundating society with rhetoric blithely celebrating its achievements, the revolution deprived women of the private language with which they might understand and articulate their personal experiences.
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Women starved just like the men did.
But the long-lasting effect of Materialist/Communist polices?
50-100 million MORE aborted female fetuses than male ones.
Sure, they had a lot more abortions and drank a lot more vodka than those filthy capitalist.women
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Maybe that’s what they meant by Communist “Party”.
Kidding right?
Since women (or baby girls) were selectively removed from the pool, murdered by forced abortions, I’d say that they didn’t fare very well.
They’re just preparing their sheep for the slaughter.
Not too long ago, they had a sharia law supporter as the head of a woman’s march.
The Communists killed a hundred million people but they gave us free tampons and abortions.....
Lefty : “I LOVE COMMUNISM!!”
The Farm was a commune set up in my home county in rural Tennessee. It worked pretty good until all the lazy hippies figured out they could move there and live off the efforts of the others while bringing nothing to the table but an appetite. It was ultimately caused many of them to leave.
I’m not using hyperbole: The American Left are sick, twisted pieces of dog zhit....
To IGNORE the million of deaths...i just don’t know what to say....
Lots of propaganda, Stalin era stuff.
Communism equals death.
Next question.
5.56mm
Oh yes they slaughtered millions and crushed dissent and individual thought and free will but the planted flowers!
Flowers!
And mothers are forced to abort additional babies (regardless of their gender) - no opportunity for them either. Years ago the West bragged about how liberated our women were; now our women realize they’ve just been made to “play man” if they want to buy nice things, and it burns them when they opt not to have children to do so. I work with many women 50 and over who are very unhappy with their economic lot in life - and I work with many women 65 and over who can’t afford to retire. Isn’t “equality” great?
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