#proletarian feminism

[jadwiga-abremovic]

The dumb, mildly fetishist "traditional wife" blogs like making posts about husbands choosing their clothes.

Throughout much of human history, WOMEN chose their husband's clothes, not the other way around.

Why? Usually, the women had made the clothes right down to weaving and colouring the fabric. Men wore the clothes their wives and mothers made for them, sewed for then, or even bought for them. They did that, and made damn sure to be happy about it, or they wore nothing at all.

That's why matching family sets of traditional folk costumes are a thing.

Never forget; he's not a ~trad husband ~, he's a loser that thinks the fucking stepford wives is a viable 21st century economic model and an accurate portrayal of history.

[femalethink]

Why procreation should be "a fact of nature" rather than a social, historically determined activity, invested by diverse interests and power relations, is a question Marx did not ask. Nor did he imagine that men and women might have different interests with respect to child-making, an activity which he treated as a gender-neutral, undifferentiated process.

In reality, so far are procreation and population changes from being automatic or "natural" that, in all phases of capitalist development, the state has had to resort to regulation and coercion to expand or reduce the work-force. This was especially true at the time of the capitalist take-off, when the muscles and bones of workers were the primary means of production. But even later — down to the present — the state has spared no efforts in its attempt to wrench from women's hands the control over reproduction, and to determine which children should be born, where, when, or in what numbers. Consequently, women have often been forced to procreate against their will, and have experienced an alienation from their bodies, their "labor," and even their children, deeper than that experienced by any other workers. No one can describe in fact the anguish and desperation suffered by a woman seeing her body turn against herself, as it must occur in the case of an unwanted pregnancy.

—Silvia Federici, "Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation".

[croifox]

Do people remember that one trans man who joined nazi organization Atomwaffen Division because their violent masculinity made him feel validated as a man in the ability to objectify and repress others (even though, of course, if his "brothers" had known he was trans they would have excised and brutalized him)? Maybe relevant to how trans men on the internet act toward marginalized trans women sometimes.

[dykeulous]

if i have to see yet another anti-communist “feminist” i will actually go feral. no i don’t mean feminists who simply disagree with marxist theory for whatever reason (though admittedly i do feel sad 🙏) but like. women who talk about how “radical” their feminism is yet harass the fuck out of leftist women. leave leftist women the hell alone!!! leftist women do so much & are crucial for our movement. stop talking about how “androcentric” marxism supposedly is if you’re going to shit on leftist women & purposely shut them up every chance you get. i promise you, you have more in common with the libfems you like to dunk on 24/7, than you ever will with the actual radical feminists. real radical feminists are aware that radfeminism is compatible with marxism & that og radfem activists & authors borrowed from/were inspired by marxist women. misogyny is everywhere, it is built in every aspect of our society, and that means that, yes, no political movement is exempt from it– but why the hell are you criticizing (if it can even be called criticism at this point, from what i’ve seen– why the hell are supposed “radfems” telling me to die & accusing me of downright gross shit because i’m a marxfem? lmfao) leftist women instead of criticizing overtly misogynistic men who hide under the guise of leftism & pretend they cannot be misogynistic just because they’re leftist? stop talking about this, “radical feminists are politically homeless!” bullshit. radical feminism is political. i mean, for fuck’s sake, it’s in the name. feminism cannot be apolitical. feminism is not centrist, and centrism is inherently sexist, as centrism is inevitably tied to right-wing politics. although i don’t like centrists of any sorts, and that includes socdems & center-leftists; i’m not speaking as much about the possible differences i have with other radfems for being an explicit marxist, i’m speaking about the “radfems” who harass the shit out of leftist women & don’t try to hide their disdain for all of the hard work these women are doing. i’m speaking about the “radfems” who lack respect for militant feminist praxis (militant feminist praxis is inherently leftist btw), about the “radfems” who go on & make ridiculous claims such as “the left is just as bad as the right”, “radfems don’t belong to any political spectrum”, “communism is sexist”, and so and so on……

[nesyanast]

Lemlich was a Ukranian Jewish immigrant who emigrated to New York in 1903. She became a garment worker and joined the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. She was a key leader in the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of New York garment workers in 1909. Blacklisted from the industry for her union work, she was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She joined was a leader of the United Council of Working Class Women. A life long activist, in her last years as a nursing home resident, Lemlich persuaded the nursing home to join in the United Farm Workers' boycotts of grapes and lettuce and helped the workers there to organize.

[vavjona]

[within-stars]

my wrists could be free from scrape

my heels could hit the ground with the ferocity of a cheetah

my hair could flow through the air like an arrow sent slipping through the wind from the taught string of a bow

squirming through the new york city crowds

swimming through the schools of the seas

and i could still never taste freedom

with a woman in chains across the globe

[pppeonies]

kinda whack how capitalism often assigns value based on scarcity—like diamonds or limited edition goods being worth more simply bc they're rare, creating this fetishization of scarcity, where rarity itself becomes a driver of worth...

Yet it simultaneously devalues the ultimate scarcity of life itself-not just human life, but all forms of life, and the intricate ecosystems that sustain our existence. It reduces the living world to commodities, resources to extract, or obstacles to clear in pursuit of economic growth, ignoring the profound interdependence of all life.

This system disregards the intrinsic worth of biodiversity, the essential roles ecosystems play in maintaining balance, and the shared history of survival that has enabled humanity to exist at all. By prioritizing short-term profit over long-term sustainability, capitalism exploits the very foundations of life, threatening not only individual species but the delicate web that connects us all.

Each life is profoundly scarce—we only get one, and every persons existence is singular and irreplaceable. Yet, under capitalism, lives are undervalued and reduced to economic utility. It reflects a system that prioritizes profit and productivity over the intrinsic worth of being human.

This contradiction—fetishizing scarcity in material goods while neglecting the ultimate scarcity of life—raises deep questions about how we assign value and what we truly care about. It feels like this disconnect is why movements for justice and dignity are so important; they remind us to center the value of life itself over profit or convenience.

On top of that, capitalism, especially in the Western world, often co-opts idealism—whether it’s spiritual, religious, or philosophical—to devalue the material reality of life itself. By emphasizing abstract promises—like eternal salvation, spiritual transcendence, or even the “inevitability” of technological fixes—it distracts from the urgency of valuing this life, the one tangible reality we can collectively know and experience.

This is especially troubling when these idealist perspectives are weaponized to justify harm, exploitation, or neglect of life. For instance, religious ideologies are sometimes used to excuse environmental destruction, framing Earth as disposable because a "better" world awaits in the afterlife. Similarly, spiritual notions of detachment from the material world can reinforce passivity toward systemic injustice, undermining the fight for equity and sustainability in the here and now.

What’s ironic is that the one undeniable truth we have—this finite existence—is disregarded in favor of speculative beliefs. Instead of cherishing the uniqueness of this life and its interconnection with all other forms of life, capitalism uses idealism to perpetuate exploitation, framing suffering or destruction as acceptable or inevitable within some larger, intangible framework.

I'm not dismissing spirituality or religion but rather urging us to focus on what we know—that this life, this world, is the foundation upon which all meaning is built. This makes valuing life, ecosystems, and our shared existence not just ethical but essential.

[hedgehology]

“I don’t simply want peace, I need bad men to suffer!”

I choose the bear.

[commiesofia]

On this international women's day, i urge you all to read esperanza cause good damn do some of you not understand how sex work is inherintly exploitative. I recommend this article to start with

[jadwiga-abremovic]

"Women smiled more in pictures in the fifties as housewives"

Yeah! It was the legal prescription for meth to deal with the lack of marital rape laws!

[femalethink]

Whose class interests (excepting those of the bourgeoisie) are served by advocating the desirability of contractual marriage and the consequent perpetuation of the subjugation of women? If we look at its material basis, we find that proletarian anti-feminism is most characteristic of those strata of the proletariat whose wages are sufficient to maintain a family at an average working-class standard of living. In such strata, where wages are adequate, a woman whose labor power is privately appropriated is a real bargain, for the same services, if waged, would be totally out of reach of the men.

Proletarian anti-feminism represents the particular material interests of highly paid, unionized male workers vis-a-vis women. The subjugation of women serves as a "natural" restriction upon the employment of female labor, and thus partially controls competition in the labor force. It keeps women unorganized and powerless in labor organizations. It secures male workers the benefits that accrue to them through their right to privately appropriate female labor power as well as the psychological "benefit" of always having a woman inferior to serve as a waitress, lover and servant, securely dependent and, at least theoretically, humbly grateful. No matter how low a man might fall, his wife is lower yet; no matter how powerless a man may truly be, his home is his castle and his subjects his wife and children.

—Marlene Dixon, "Left-Wing Anti-Feminism: A Revisionist Disorder."

[thepeacockangel]

I think the proliferation of the rifled gun barrel and the invention of the revolving magazine and the development of feminism as a political movement are connected in a materialist sense.

[dykeulous]

about me.

i am apollo, a 20 year old homosexual transguy butch, and i come from a small, underdeveloped slavic country. i made this blog in hopes to come to a finalized understanding of my own personal beliefs, as feminism & overall politics have been a very close & important interest of mine for quite a long time– but it has lately been growing into something bigger. i find it is my role and duty to shed light on specific, more grey areas, that many people from my political sphere tend to overlook & even outright dismiss; and this is something that i strive to achieve during my time being on radblr. i conversate with people whose political beliefs vary & don’t align with my own on a wide scale, and i hope to promote a nuanced approach to many topics. i believe locking ourselves up in an echo-chamber will only result in infighting, fearmongering, culty behavior and needless division– when time could have better been spent exchanging ideas, researching ways to fight the common enemy, and actively organizing.

i am a working-class lesbian and still in college (majoring in history & sociology), and my political views stem from my own life experiences. i am a bolshevik-leninist, much of my feminism is connected to this in many ways (i advocate for revolutionary feminism, and would describe myself as a dual system feminist); i believe that working-class women share very little similarities with bourgeois women, and thus should not share solidarity with them. i’m very interested in rehabilitative justice. when you become aware of the institutional sexism & mistreatment of women in every corner of our society, you will begin to see that this extends to several institutions that you might have viewed as helpful and safe– i consider myself psychiatry-critical (not anti), and i hate the way that so many women & feminists fail to see the misogyny in the field of psychology & more overall medicine. the male body is seen as default in every case scenario, and it is on us feminists to lividly oppose & fight against that. i am gender critical, but not transphobic– trans people deserve the right protection and safety, but this should not come at the expense of other marginalized groups. the trans community does a very bad job at addressing misogyny in their spaces, and often adopts an ideology of metaphysical beliefs, which directly oppose dialectical materialism, and rather push for an idealistic view of the world. radical feminist spaces, on the other hand, may ignore the need for nuance in some cases, and brush off the very important fight of dismantling transphobia (and viewing transphobia as inherently patriarchal). i believe both spaces ought to improve, and instead of cannibalizing each other, we must come to an understanding of each other (despite certain disagreements), and work together on our shared end goal. both communities can learn plenty from the other, and both can offer useful strategies to the other. the key lays in recognizing both sex-based oppression and transphobia as legitimate axes of oppression, and uniting to fight the lethality of the patriarchy.

i hold addicts & recovering addicts dearly to my heart, and i believe that criminalization does nothing good, and instead marginalizes the addicts, especially female addicts. i am not vegan myself, but i appreciate the work of my ecofeminist sisters, and their amazing analyses of the oppression of animals & patriarchal-capitalist exploitation of our environment. i am autistic, and my most prominent special interest has to be gender abolition; the reason i made this blog in the first place is exactly because i wanted to develop my own theory of gender abolition. this is how i define gender. the pathway to gender abolition that i personally align with the most is gender acceleration. another special interest are marxist politics. anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anti-zionist. 🇵🇸 FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!!!

my current hyperfixations are harry potter, my little pony and more generally vampires. i kin twilight sparkle from mlp, and severus snape & barty crouch jr. from harry potter (weird mix i know). i am an intj, and used to be quite interested in typology before. i primarily listen to feminist punk (riot grrrl), but i also sometimes enjoy a good goth masterpiece. i am interested in soviet history (the night witches are so fascinating), cuban cuisine, and north korean culture. i would define myself as a slavic patriot, and will not hesitate to punch a westerner in the face if they choose to close their eyes before our beautiful history. tito, lenin, che guevara, rosa luxemburg apologist. my favorite feminist authors include angela davis, clara zetkin, alexandra kollontai, monique wittig, christine delphy, audre lorde and cordelia fine (cordelia fine in particular i would recommend to a lot of people on radblr to dismantle their own bio-essentialism & neurosexism).

not exactly a nicefem, even though i do try to be kind & informative– i tend to get angry fairly quickly, and this is something i’m working on. do not assume bad faith. extremely bad at reading tone, and i myself can sometimes come off as rude & condescending unintentionally; feel free to ask me about tone. i see misogyny in everything and will not hold myself back from calling it out, no matter the setting or the situation. everyone can interact, and i do not block easily, but if you engage in outright harassment & repeat petty insults, i will block.

i would not explicitly call myself a tirf either, even though in practice i would be considered one. this is because i often find that “tirfism” leans into trying to erase the existence of sex-based oppression, and shifts the radical feminist movement into a direction that completely neglects material reality & instead focuses on the same old liberal tactics. the word “tirf” in the first place stems as a counter-attack against the word “terf”, making it reactionary. i’ve also personally been in several spaces filled with tirf-identified folk, who ended up heavily speaking over trans men & prioritized trans women over any other demographic, focusing on proving that they are “one of the good ones”, destroying the purpose of radical feminism. i believe the word “terf” has completely lost its’ meaning & is excessively being used as a way to shut up exclusively same-sex attracted women & women who dare talk about sex-based oppression. when i see a radical feminist being shitty & using transphobic rhetoric, i call her a transphobe; not a terf. nevertheless, i believe there is a time & place for trans women to offer their voice in feminist discussions, and their voice is very important & deserving of being heard & uplifted, so long as they stay respectful of female people & our unique experiences. i consider transmisogyny a legitimate axis of oppression [and transandromisogyny, better known as “transandrophobia” although i take issue with the roots of that word], and i think it should be discussed & analyzed more in feminist spaces. that being said, if a feminist wants to exclusively focus on female liberation & chooses her feminism to be female driven, she should have every right to do so.

#ftminism is a tag i use to talk & ramble about transmasc-specific [or transmasc-adjacent] struggles that i feel can be connected to feminism in one way or another. i also sometimes tag transmasc positivity with this. it is a word that i coined to describe transmasc-activism, since i feel trans feminism does a horrible job at including trans men. feel free to consider it a subsect of trans feminism, but i personally do not, and i think it should be its’ own feminist branch. i am transmasc myself, and thus mostly center my feminism around this [i also center butches, detrans women, studs and overall gender nonconforming female people in my feminism]. we deserve our own space to vent our anger at the patriarchy.

check out @pokegyns– it is a collaborative nuancefem blog, modded by discord server members, and created by @tirfpikachu.

*Thread: Transness and Radical Feminism Can Coexist*

[lord-antihero]

reminder that the feminist struggle is intertwined with the abolition of capitalism

[revolutionarymaoistschicago]

Statement on the Split in AF3IRM

Originally posted February 7, 2023

News has recently surfaced regarding a split in the organization known as AF3IRM. We will not go into the details of this split here, as the comrades directly involved have already published their own principled criticism of AF3IRM and summation of the issues leading up to the split (find their statement here: https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/our-split-from-af3irm-shedding-light-on-our-issues-to-encourage-our-growth-towards-a-real-76cd1bcae395). Since the initial statement was published on February 6th, the number of signatories has only continued to grow, sitting at 48 at the time of our writing this article. 

At this time, the Chicago Chapter of the Revolutionary Maoist Coalition wants to extend our unconditional solidarity and support to the brave comrades who have broken with the liberal leadership of AF3IRM. Building a revolutionary women’s movement that is 1) free from both male-chauvinism as well as bourgeois liberal feminism, and 2) based in proletarian feminism, anti-imperialism, national liberation, and scientific socialism is one of the most pressing tasks of our movement today. We applaud the bravery and revolutionary discipline exhibited by the comrades who are now working to forge their own path forward in accomplishing this goal. Let it be known that you are not alone, and that we in RMC – Chicago are happy to aid in this work in any way possible. 

Moreover, we formally denounce the actions of AF3IRM leadership not only for the liberal, pro-imperialist, anti-democratic tendencies which led to the split, but also for the manipulation and misinformation — described by one former-member that left during the split as “psychological warfare” — employed by them in the wake of the split. Those who remain in leadership have audaciously claimed that only two members of AF3IRM have left, denied the existence of the split, and claimed that social media pages formerly affiliated with AF3IRM which have posted about the split have simply been hacked. This should be seen for what it is: utter cowardice. It exhibits nothing else other than a fear of accountability; a fear of ideological struggle and criticism; a fear of the truth. 

We wish all 48 signatories of the document shedding light on the split the best of luck in continuing their struggle for a revolutionary proletarian feminist line. You comrades are justified, brave, and supported by revolutionary women and gender-oppressed people everywhere. 

Down with imperialist “feminism”! Proletarian feminism forever!  Long live the women’s struggle!  Long live the international proletariat! 

Signed,  Executive Committee Revolutionary Maoist Coalition – Chicago