"No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children.
Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice,
precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make
that one."
That chilling commentary comes from fem-socialist Simone de Beauvoir, in
her famous 1974 interview in The Saturday Review.
So what happens when the radical feminist agenda becomes the law of the
land?
That is not a mere hypothetical question. It can be answered by turning
the pages of history back to the tragic early days of Soviet Russia.
When Lenin's Bolsheviks seized the levers of power in 1917, Lenin faced
the daunting challenge of jump-starting agricultural and industrial
production. So he cast his eye on a vast, untapped workforce: peasant
women.
Parroting the Marxist line on
female
oppression,
Lenin incited
women to action at the First All Russia Congress of
Working Women: "The status of women up to now has been compared to that
of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can
save them from this."
In short order, Lenin pushed through laws assuring women equal pay for
equal work and the right to hold property.
But as Simone de Beauvoir pointed out, many women would be tempted to go
back to the old ways to tend to hearth and home. So the traditional
family would need to be abolished. Lenin understood that fact, as well.
So in 1918, Lenin introduced a
new
marriage code that outlawed church
ceremonies. Lenin opened state-run nurseries, dining halls, laundries,
and sewing centers. Abortion was legalized in 1920, and divorce
simplified.
In a few short years, most of the functions of the family had been
expropriated by the state. By 1921,
Lenin
could brag that "in Soviet
Russia, no trace is left of any inequality between men and women under
the law."
But Lenin's dream of gender emancipation soon dissolved into a cruel
nightmare of social chaos.
First, the decline
of marriage gave rise to rampant sexual debauchery.
Party loyalists complained that comrades were spending too much time in
love affairs, so they could not fulfill their revolutionary duties.
Not surprisingly, women who were sent out to labor in the fields and the
factories stopped having babies. In 1917, the average Russian woman had
borne six children. By 1991, that number had fallen to two. This
fertility
free-fall is unprecedented in modern history.
But it was the children who were the greatest victims. As a result of
the break-up of families, combined with civil war and famine, countless
numbers of Russian children found themselves
without
family or home.
Many ended up as common thieves or prostitutes.
In his recent book Perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev reflected on 70 years
of Russian turmoil: "We have discovered that many of our problems -- in
children's and young people's behavior, in our morals, culture and in
production -- are partially caused by the weakening of family ties."
Fem-socialists, hell-bent on achieving a genderless society, are now
scheming to repeat the same disastrous experiment in Western society.
Naturally, they are hoping that you not hear the story of family
destruction in Soviet Russia.
But the truth is there, waiting to be grasped by anyone who cares to
see.
