Feminism Was Created by the US Communist Party
April 1, 2025
from Feb, 2018
By Henry Makow Ph.D.
"Rape is an expression of ... male supremacy ... the age-old economic, political and cultural exploitation of women by men."
Does this sound like a modern radical feminist? Guess again. It is from an American Communist Party pamphlet from 1948 entitled "Woman Against Myth" by Mary Inman.
In a 2002 book, Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation, feminist historian Kate Weigand states: "ideas, activists and traditions that emanated from the Communist movement of the forties and fifties continued to shape the direction of the new women's movement of the 1960s and later."(154)
In fact, Weigand, a lecturer at Smith College, shows that modern feminism is a direct outgrowth of American Communism. There is nothing that feminists said or did in the 1960's-1980's that wasn't prefigured in the CPUSA of the 1940's and 1950's. Many second-wave feminist leaders were "red diaper babies," the children of Communist Jews.
Communists pioneered the political and cultural analysis of woman's oppression. They originated "women's studies," and advocated public daycare, birth control, abortion and even children's rights. They forged key feminist concepts such as "the personal is the political" and techniques such as "consciousness raising."
In the late 1940's, CPUSA leaders realized that the labor movement was becoming increasingly hostile to Communism. They began to focus on women and African Americans. They hoped "male supremacy" would "bring more women into the organization and into the fight against the domestic policies of the Cold War." (80)
Communist women who made up 40% of the party wanted more freedom to attend party meetings. After the publication of "Women Against Myth" in 1948, the CPUSA initiated a process of "re-educating" men that we recognize only too well today.
For example, in the party newspaper "The Daily Worker" a photo caption of a man with a young child read, "Families are stronger and happier if the father knows how to fix the cereal, tie the bibs and take care of the youngsters." (127)
The Party ordered men who didn't take the woman question seriously to complete "control tasks involving study on the woman question." In 1954 the Los Angeles branch disciplined men for "hogging discussion at club meetings, bypassing women comrades in leadership and making sex jokes degrading to women." (94)
A film Salt of the Earth, which critic Pauline Kael called "Communist propaganda", portrayed women taking a decisive role in their husbands' labor strike. "Against her husband's wishes, Esperanza became a leader in the strike and for the first time forged a role for herself outside of her household... [her] political successes persuaded Ramon to accept a new model of family life." (132) Portrayals of strong assertive successful women became as common in the Communist press and schools, as they are in the mass media today.
Communist women formalized a sophisticated Marxist analysis of the "woman question." The books In Women's Defense (1940) by Mary Inman, Century of Struggle (1954) by Eleanor Flexner and The Unfinished Revolution (1962) by Eve Merriam recorded women's oppression and decried sexism in mass culture and language. For example, Mary Inman argued that "manufactured femininity" and "overemphasis on beauty" keep women in subjection (33).
The founder of modern feminism, Betty Frieden, left, relied on these texts when she wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963). These women all hid the fact that they were long-time Communist activists. In 1960, their daughters had everything they needed, including the example of subterfuge, to start the Women's Liberation Movement.
THE COMMUNIST CHARACTER OF FEMINISM
Feminism's roots in Marxist Communism explain a great deal about this curious but dangerous movement. It explains:
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Why the " woman's movement" hates femininity and imposes a political-economic concept like "equality" on a personal, biological and mystical relationship.
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Why the "women's movement" also embraces "equality" of race and class.
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Why they want revolution ("transformation") and have a messianic vision of a gender-less utopia.
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Why they believe human nature is infinitely malleable and can be shaped by indoctrination and coercion.
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Why they engage in endless, mind-numbing theorizing, doctrinal disputes and factionalism.
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Why truth for them is a "social construct" defined by whoever has power, and appearances are more important than reality.
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Why they reject God, nature and scientific evidence in favor of their political agenda.
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Why they refuse to debate, don't believe in free speech, and suppress dissenting views.
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Why they behave like a quasi-religious cult, or like the Red Guard.
It's hard to escape the conclusion that feminism is Communism by another name. Communism is designed to give power to the puppets of central bankers by fostering division and conflict. Divide and Conquer. Having failed to peddle class and race war, Communism promoted gender conflict instead. In each case they fostered a sense of grievance in the target group. Now the traditional feminine role "oppressed" women.
(Left, another Communist psy op.)
The "diversity" and "multicultural" movements represent Communism's attempt to empower and use other minorities, gays and "people of color," to further undermine the majority (European, Christian) culture. Thus, the original CPUSA trio of "race, gender and class" is very much intact but class conflict was never a big seller.
The term "politically correct" originated in the Russian Communist Party in the 1920's. Its usage in America today illustrates the extent society has been subverted. Feminist activists are mostly Communist dupes. The Communist goal is to destroy Western Civilization and establish a veiled dictatorship called "world government" run by the toadies of the central bankers.
We have seen this destruction in the dismantling of the liberal arts curriculum and tradition of free speech and inquiry at our universities. We have seen this virus spread to government, business, the media and the military. This could only happen because the financial elite, in fact, sponsors Communism.
In Communism, the government is the ultimate monopoly. It controls everything, not just wealth but also power and thought. It is the instrument of monopoly capital (i.e. Rothschild, Rockefeller.) Everybody from the President on down works for them.
A LOCAL EXAMPLE
"Political correctness" has dulled and regimented our cultural life. In 2002, here in Winnipeg, Betty Granger, a conservative school trustee referred to "the Asian invasion" causing house price increases in Vancouver. Granger was pilloried mercilessly in the press. People sent hate letters and dumped garbage on her lawn.
At a meeting, the School Board Chairman acknowledged that Granger is not a racist and Asians have married into her family. Nonetheless, Granger was censured because, I quote, "appearances are more important than reality." This slippage from the mooring of objective truth is the hallmark of Communism.
The atmosphere at the meeting was charged. Mild-mannered Canadians, all champions of "tolerance," behaved like wild dogs eager to rip apart a trapped rabbit. Betty Granger repented and voted in favor of her own censure.
These rituals of denunciation and contrition, typical of Stalinist Russia or Maoist China, are becoming more common in America. They are like show trials designed to frighten people into conforming. We have "diversity officers" and "human rights commissions" and "sensitivity training" to uphold feminist shibboleths. They talk about "discrimination" but they freely discriminate against Christians, white heterosexual men and traditional women. They use the specter of "sexual harassment" to fetter male-female relations and purge their opponents.
CONCLUSION
In 1980, three women in Leningrad produced ten typewritten copies of a feminist magazine called Almanac. The KGB shut down the magazine and deported the women to West Germany. In the USSR, feminism has largely been for export. According to Professor Weigand, her "book provides evidence to support the belief that at least some Communists regarded the subversion of the gender system [in America] as an integral part of the larger fight to overturn capitalism."In conclusion, the feminist pursuit of "equal rights" is a mask for an invidious Communist agenda. The Communist MO has always been deception, infiltration, and subversion using social justice issues as a pretext. Communism can take any form that empowers the puppets of the central bankers. The goal is the destruction of Western civilization and creation of a new world order run by monopoly capital. This has largely been accomplished.
Kate Weigand's Red Feminism demonstrates that we live in a de facto Communist society, a development which took place by subterfuge with the complicity of the Masonic central banker-controlled Establishment.---
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First Comment from TWH:
I have no doubt in my mind at all that bankers are behind a lot of the nonsense we are witnessing today with respect to social re-engineering. I used to work for one of the big five banks here in Canada and can personally attest to the fact that they would ceaselessly push this communist propaganda onto employees all the time. If the company wasn't extolling the virtues of International Women's Day, they were harping about buggery (homosexuality) or how "vibrant" minorities made us. The entire strategy was to divide people while telling us that we're all the same (and, of course, making the white, heterosexual majority feel bland and useless). Only by engaging in some severe cognitive dissonance could one actually swallow their hogwash.
I found the part about Betty Granger in your article particularly eye-popping. She was told that "appearances are more important than reality". I was told this, or a minor variation of it, numerous times by management where I worked. When I would retort with reason and logic, they'd simply repeat their line.
When you're the only sane person among a bunch of mentally ill people, you begin to think you're the one who might be the insane one. I don't know how people can simply remain silent about it.
I used to compare the bank to a former Eastern-Bloc nation, since they had their Stasi/KGB in overly nosy and harassing H.R. representatives (they would only enforce what management wanted enforced and would dismiss any real concerns brought by white employees -- if you're working for a major corporation, NEVER TRUST H.R.), they had their propaganda arm which permeated everything, they had their legal department which had documents the size of novels to ensure any employee could be accused of wrongdoing when it suited them, and they had the workers in fear of their jobs if they ever decided to raise a peep against any of it. I'm glad to be gone from that place!
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Comments for "Feminism Was Created by the US Communist Party "
Ann said (February 13, 2018):
Feminists are really ‘anti’-feminine, so, their term “feminist†is really a misnomer and purposefully misleading. Nevertheless, most (if
not all) are practitioners of witchcraft.
Whether it is Luciferian New Age doctrine of looks benevolent, but certainly is not; or outright fondness for evil; they are witches. The good news is Jesus defeated the devil.
Having experienced the wrath of anti-feminine females, I found the two biggest tactics they use are false witness and character assassination. A lot of what we are seeing now in the media. But, they work against women too, so, the men are not their only targets.
JG said (February 13, 2018):
It still amazes me on how the Communist trend setters always make up a word or title to their invented movements that mean the exact opposite of what they are. Communism is REVERSE REALITY. [Satanism- hm]
It's laughable, there is nothing feminine about a small group of butch looking women clamoring for social change. This movement is for the women who feel left behind. Communism is for people who can't handle life on life's terms.
Not to brag, I've known many different women from different social economic cultures and ethnic heritage. And, they weren't the physically unattractive ones either. They all just wanted to do what was best for themselves and their families. And, they wanted a man to look up to and not one they had to dominate. The feminist movement to them never even entered into the equation of things.
VT said (August 5, 2016):
Feminism was a key piece in the Communist jigsaw and was laid out over a century and a half ago in the Communist Manifesto in 1848. Then like a one-two knockout punch, along came Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. God was out the picture. It was all about Man now, and the survival of the fittest - man versus man, and now woman versus man. She had to compete with man to survive, and we could not deny her a "level playing field". It was so successful, that Nietzsche could proclaim only a quarter of a century later, "God is dead".
While Communism may have laid the groundwork for feminism, the CIA was instrumental in promoting it in post-War America through agents like Gloria Steinem. She admits it herself here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HRUEqyZ7p8
Which begs the question - was the CIA effecting the aims of Communism unwittingly or wittingly? I would say the latter - which highlights the fraudulent nature of the Cold War, and explains why the establishment had no time for men like Huey Long, Joe McCarthy, or JFK.
Everyone knows Long and McCarthy's anti-Communist credentials, but some are confused by JFK's apparent reluctance to tackle communist Cuba. You see, JFK realized the hard militaristic approach against Communism was just playing into the hands of the military-industrial complex.
I think he saw right through the whole Cold War façade. He wanted to get out of Vietnam and talk to Khrushchev to end the whole charade, which would have imperilled the trillion dollar arms race and taken geo-politics on a turn the establishment wanted like a hole in the head. So (excuse the really bad pun!) they gave him one instead.
Al Thompson said (August 3, 2016):
I really hate feminism as I think it was responsible for the breaking up of my family.
The communists are complete assholes because they love to destroy everything that is good and things that provide a lot of joy in a man's life. They do this by attacking the family, and that attack will come through the weaker part which is the wife. This is why Jehovah's Witnesses like to come around 1-2 in the afternoon while the husband isn't home. The point here is, women in general, are more gullible than men so they will lap up the communist nonsense just like a dog who eats his own vomit. Communism, leftists, socialists, fascists have nothing to offer. While they say someone can get free goods and services, the fact is that someone is going to pay for it.
In order to combat communism, you have to recognize it quickly and then oppose it.
Most people haven't read the Communist Manifesto and it is a boring read, but if the reader can just master the 10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto, he'll see that all governments have these principles in place. And you'll never see a candidate for office offer to dismember all of the communist principles in the government. They will keep it all going. And remember, since Karl Marx was a Talmudic Jew, the Jews own the communist system. They did it and they can't deny it.
So, don't worry about any communist takeover, that already happened a long time ago. Feminism, civil rights, and homosexuals use their perversions as a mask for communism.
http://verydumbgovernment.blogspot.com/2015/03/lipstick-on-communist-pig.html
Dan said (March 15, 2015):
Quoting from of an authorized FDR-friendly biography, "Roosevelt and Stimson pleaded for drafting women into the Army. Since for war purposes all bodies were equally necessary, and the war priority all powerful, traditional distinctions and ties diminished. The kinship system, never very strong, was virtually dismantled. The demands for young men in the services lessened their economic dependence upon their elders and projected anew a cult of youth. The freedom and importance of young people--almost instant adulthood--sent the marriage rate skyrocketing. The economic demand for women on the assembly line caused a new move toward sexual equality and a de-emphasis on the wife-mother role. Families, separated geographically and functionally spent less time together. Long overtime hours, migration to job centers, the induction of husbands into the services, and loss of control by parents over marriage, all weakened family stability...The hierarchy of age, income, sex--in fact the whole stratification system--was eroding."
Once the world war was underway there could never be a reversion of society to what it was prior to the war.
Harry said (March 15, 2015):
As a long time blogger, I've dealt personally with these bigoted assholes (the LGBT) and feminist skanks and know first-hand how vindictive and unhinged they are. I've been banned from blogs, YouTube, had various accounts shut down for criticizing homosexualism and Zionism. You can't reason with these crazies. We need to support and not condemn countries still not totally under the politically correct boot for taking what we might think as harsh measures against these deviants. The treatment they get is nothing compared with what we'll receive at their hands if they ever get the upper hand. (Sodom and Gomorrah) Seeing a few perverts getting beaten up and a few pedophiles strung up doesn't interfere with my sleep one damned bit.
That's what it's going to take at this stage, I'm afraid. We've let this thing go on for too long.
g said (July 28, 2009):
I am not a Communist.
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Dear G,
No, you are the victim of Illuminati social engineering.
h
BACKGROUND
Chris Fogarty's now-famous map, the Mass Graves of Ireland, lists the "worthy" British regiments that "served."
RH said (April 1, 2025):
Another excellent article. I have come to believe that there are many models of communism. The USSR was the hardest model and the USA was the softest in the 20th century. They played the “See how bad it is over there in the USSR,” card versus the American Capitalism card and we didn’t note our slow slide into communistic thinking here.
The Women’s Movement was meant to destroy the family and it has, with the help of no-fault divorce. Most industries today are near monopolistic. Media, banking, vehicle manufacturing, drug stores and so on. Farming is private ownership, but collective in that the US government controls the owner via farm subsidies. Housing is becoming centralized…senior co ops are very popular.
We just think we are not communistic because of how they define it for us. When compared to the old USSR, we think we are not under communist rule. The elite are outside of the whole…again its how they define who is and who is not…the rulers.