Communism may have been defeated in parts of Eastern Europe, but it’s alive and well in Washington D.C.

While doing some research for an upcoming article I happened to be reading through a USAID (
United States Agency for International Development) report, I discovered this description of the USSR’s “progressive” feminism.

“Gender Equality: Despite a fairly progressive outlook and practical policies on gender equality promoted by the former Soviet Union, social and gender norms perpetuate gender inequalities, which are even more pronounced for marginalized populations.”

Probably a bit too late to ask how many Communists USAID has working for it. But that’s asking the wrong question because it’s more accurately an issue of how much of the left, which populates USAID, is Communist-friendly.

USAID, under Samantha Power, is usually in the news for aiding Islamic terrorists, but it’s useful to remember that’s only because it’s so red.

It figures that those reds would praise the glories of the USSR which did bill itself as being feminist (and also anti-racist and worker friendly) which was a lie. No one in the USSR had much in the way of rights, but women had less of them, and while the Bolsheviks initially pretended that they were going to break new ground in liberating women, by the time Stalin came on the scene (and even earlier), the whole thing was little more than tokenism. The USSR showed off women doing all sorts of things, like going into space, purely as political propaganda. In reality, life for women was frequently ugly and the things that American women had come to take for granted by the 1960s, being able to divorce an abusive husband,  was a lot harder for Communist Party members. Legal equality was a meaningless fiction that required women to work as hard as men without gaining any rights thereby and retaining all the disadvantages.

You might call it a good summary of feminism.