Progressivism isn't about fighting Oppression.
It is about becoming the Oppressors.
Yeah. Anything about forced sterilization?
Funny thing—with all the love for communism all over the place, I don’t recall ever in history any carefully thought out, concrete explanation of why it’s such a great idea.
And was Grandma allowed into the USA? How many articles did she write that ruined the lives of innocent people?
Girl babies were also disproportionately aborted, a practice which continues. Not a lot of opportunity for them, yes?
Oh yes, and all of those people who died during The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution are a testament to women’s lives improving under Communism.
What next for this pathetic band, are they going to tell people that women’s lives in Cambodia improved under Pol Pot and his Killing Fields and with people being jailed or killed for wearing glasses or speaking more than one language or being too happy or too lazy?
That sort of socialist terminology was old and stale by the 1940's. Perhaps the Times is still stuck in the 1930's.
Anyway, here we see a communist Chinese soldier executing someone who isn't quite socialist enough. I doubt if the executed man's wife was then better off. But maybe the soldier's wife got a good laugh out of it. So I guess the Times would call it a wash.
They fared just as badly as men.
The comments section is closed, I guess ‘cause some people were a tad skeptical.
Well they probably didn’t enjoy their forced abortions. God have mercy.
Not to mention most of the aborted kids were little women aka girls.
I have two friends who grew up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
They worked in the fields unproductively like others like themselves, both were young physicists and not farmers.
One day the local commune leader came and all of the people were instructed to form 2 lines, males in one line and females in the other.
The local leader then declared that each was married to the person closest in the other line.
How’d that work out?
They could only be together 2 weeks each year while on vacation.
Later when the rules became more lax, they emigrated to the USA, she became a citizen and he moved back to China. Their daughter married a Dutch guy and moved to the Netherlands. That was 15 years ago. None of them have kept in touch since.
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.
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 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.
Lots of propaganda, Stalin era stuff.
Communism equals death.
Next question.
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Oh yes they slaughtered millions and crushed dissent and individual thought and free will but the planted flowers!
Flowers!