Is feminism a communist construct?

northseaview · 2025-11-24T05:28:06+00:00

Some Feminism has adopted the cloak, or aesthetic of Marxism, by framing gender relations in terms of oppressor and oppressed classes, but devoid of the materialist foundation on which capitalist and working class are defined. In fact it is worse, because the designation of which gender may be the oppressor is counter to any material analysis of the social and economic status of men and women across multiple times and societies. By any objective measure 90% of men are economically and socially discriminated against more than their female piers. Feminism being a female supremacist ideology will use any tools available that can demonize men and justify privileges for women. In contrast Marxism explains scientifically how class relations arise under capitalism, and how the crises of capitalism arise from the tendency to monopoly, impoverishment of labour, imperialism and 'rate' of profit to fall.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2025-11-24T02:58:56+00:00

There are some schools of feminism which are outright Marxist (i.e. believe that women's issues are a byproduct of the capitalist class's oppression of the working class). There are also many other schools of feminism which take some ideas from Marxist theory (most typically the idea that there's an oppressor-oppressed dynamic reinforced by a cultural hegemony), albeit in different directions.

A few schools of feminism aren't influenced by Marxism, but they're considered Not Feminist Enough by the established/official Feminist movement and frankly most MRAs fit the definition of those non-Marxist forms of feminism.

Impossible-Age-3302 · 2025-11-24T03:18:28+00:00

You’re describing Marx’s Theory of Conflict. Contemporary Intersectional theory is based on the principle that some groups have The Power and others don’t (Oppressor vs Oppressed). If you’ve ever heard someone say “black people can’t be racist, because they don’t have the institutional power to be,” you’ll know what I’m talking about.

The combination/intersection of identities you have determines how oppressed vs privileged you are. If you’re a straight, white man, you’re mega-privileged. If you’re a gay, black woman, you’re mega-oppressed. It’s the human experience distilled into simple arithmetic.

It’s a dumb, overly-simplistic way of looking at the world and it doesn’t even hold up to its own scrutiny. For example, in the case of black men and police brutality. Black women should have fewer privilege points, and thus their experience should be worse than Black men’s. And yet, black men get killed by police more, which leftists attribute to racism.

Feminism seems to be ultimate manifestation of this, and Helen Andrews even pointed this out with her take on wokeness in “The Great Feminisation.”

I’m not sure the principles of feminism really started with Marx, but his work did seem to influence the framework of feminist theory. Throughout history, it does seem like womens’ approach to obtaining privileges has been defining a power imbalance between the sexes and demanding some kind of special treatment to offset that imbalance. Furthermore, feminist type women like to infantilize themselves and deny the existence of personal agency for the purpose of avoiding accountability or passing blame onto men. Saying that men have all the power and women have none, or blaming everything on the patriarchy is really the perfect way to do this. Who set that system up?

Marx defined the Oppressor class as wealthy elites and the Oppressed as the Proletariat, which is a lot more sensible than making blanket generalizations about race or gender. The real issues in society pertain to economics and poverty. I still think his view of the world is faulty, but it’s much more practical and realistic.

omegaphallic · 2025-11-24T08:21:34+00:00

No, feminism is more a parasitic idealogy that can attach itself to any other ideology or religion.

Falconoflight777 · 2025-11-24T10:20:15+00:00

Totally false, basically feminism have more in common with Nazism than comunism (despite i have reasons to hate communism even more). But neither, this ideology are universal gynocentric tool of our society, basically natural expansion of women are wonderful and men can be useful narrative.

critical_Bat · 2025-11-24T13:27:17+00:00

That is so off topic there is no point in continuing this discussion comrade.

TheManipulator_25 · 2025-11-24T13:52:01+00:00

Perhaps this sjw brand, which did evolve from the 1970s campus, to lipstick feminism in the early 90s, is, but the core component of equal opportunity (i.e. equality NOT equity) in a free market economy doesn't seem marxist.

dependency_injector · 2025-11-24T06:09:56+00:00

Both ideologies are designed to wage an eternal war against an unbeatable enemy (capitalism/patriarchy). Both promise that once they end the eternal war and beat their unbeatable enemy, everyone will live in heaven. Until they do (which is impossible by definition), their every immoral action can be justified by their noble goal.

Pretend-Storm4566 · 2025-11-24T02:29:23+00:00

They are certainly closely linked, yes.

YouSuck225 · 2025-11-24T02:18:45+00:00

What the fuck does that even mean ?

You are describing any social/political conflict

Odd-Luck7658 · 2025-11-24T11:07:06+00:00

OmNamoShivaya44 · 2025-11-24T14:04:47+00:00

No. Go to China and see how much feminism there is.

MeasurementNice295 · 2025-11-24T03:56:06+00:00

Yes.

Which_Ad_3917 · 2025-11-24T06:19:38+00:00

Red scare! Woooooo

No-Werewolf-5955 · 2025-11-24T07:35:05+00:00

Feminism has a large amount of influence directly from Marxism since it's publication. Marxism and the subsequent ideologies of Communism and critical theory are integral to the feminist movement.

Delvilchamito · 2025-11-24T11:16:33+00:00

Yes like literally yes

Artistic_Alfalfa_860 · 2025-11-24T06:47:13+00:00

Both of them attract ugly women.

Omz-bomz · 2025-11-24T12:38:14+00:00

Are you sure you are framing that question correctly?
Why not, is communism a feminist construct?

Marx was definetively influenced by women that participated in different events through early 1830 and 1840s. Though I think it was Friedrich Engels that was the more "feminist" of them.

For example, in the book "the German Ideology" that came out before the communist manifesto Marx and Engels write "The origin of private property lies in the family, where wife and children are the slaves of the husband"

More of their early work gives strong indication that the class struggle power dynamic with capitalism was heavily influenced, and in return influenced the gender power dynamic retoric that early feminists had used.

Was it only that it was an effective retoric and use of power dynamics that Marx and Engels saw and used for their own uses, or was there more influence? or was it just two distinct schools of thought that was coming to life at the same time, influinsing each other as they substanciated their theories?

Substantial_Fan_8921 · 2025-11-24T02:03:34+00:00

Originally yes Sadly, not anymore

HTAwesome · 2025-11-24T06:29:58+00:00

Not naming any names here, but both their roots trace back to a certain demographic 😬

Proof_Boysenberry_74 · 2025-11-24T11:11:50+00:00

Not not really. Communism and feminism are unrelated entirely in their identity but both oppose kapitalism and feminism likes to frame kapitalism as the cause for sexism so it's more of a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" type of situation. Sexism in generell is present in all societal structures including every kommunist society.

Title	Is feminism a communist construct?
Author	Useful-Cow-2199
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Date	November 23, 2025 10:23 PM UTC (8 months ago)
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