I almost forgot it was International Women’s Day, but fortunately the feminist blogs I frequently check reminded me. Obviously, most people could give a damn about the event, but it does usually result in some publicity and, naturally, some political pandering.
Because most people do not pay it much attention, the origins of the event are shrouded in ignorance. So, it falls again to The Spearhead to pierce the darkness and shine the illuminating torch of knowledge on the fetid annals of feminist history.
It turns out that the first International Women’s Day was launched by the Socialist Party of America in 1909. The SPA was a fervently Marxist organization — its most famous leader, Eugene Debs, became a convert after reading Das Kapital. As Marxism gained steam, the holiday became increasingly popular throughout Europe and the United States. In Europe, during the fateful years preceding WWI, hundreds of thousands of women marched, rioting and fighting police after agitators such as Clara Zetkin (later a staunch Bolshevik) spurred them on.
When Czarist Russia was teetering on the brink, it was an International Women’s Day riot by the women of Petrograd that set off the spark of revolution. In recognition of the crucial support these early feminists gave to the nascent Bolshevik regime, International Women’s Day was made an official holiday of the Soviet Union.
Due to its strong affiliation with Communism and the monstrous excesses of the Bolsheviks, International Women’s Day fell into obscurity in the West until revived by the Marxist feminists of the 1960s. Since then, it has become a day of triumph, during which women have desecrated churches, excluded men from public places, and generally congratulated themselves.
In some countries, the day has very negative connotations, because it symbolizes Soviet occupation. In the former Czechoslovakia, for example, Women’s Day rallies were huge events sponsored by the Communist Party. Since regaining independence, these countries have generally had a negative opinion of the holiday, which is only commemorated by diehard Communist loyalists.
As Western men grow increasingly burdened by authoritarian feminism, perhaps we can identify with the subject peoples of the Communist Bloc. Perhaps, some day in the future we, too, can throw off the shackles of oppressive dogma and forced equality and once again stand and live as free men. Then, as it is now in recently liberated countries, the day will be remembered only as a hated symbol of a cruel regime.
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Joseph Stalin’s 1936 Soviet Constitution in article 118 guaranteed the right of women to equal pay and maternity leave. The next time that some feminist tells you that she has a “right’ to make babies on the company’s time while you do her work for her, kindly remind the bitch that her “right” was first guaranteed by good old “Uncle Joe”.
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