The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents a study on the radical origins of International Women's Day! As comrade Mao Zedong correctly stated: "Women hold up half the sky." Enjoy listening!
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Literature Used In This Class:
International Women's Day by Birgitte Søland
https://ourcloud.usvanguard.net/s/QGC...
Recommended Reading:
An Interview with Lenin on the Woman Question by Clara Zetkin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetk...
Lenin on the Women’s Question by Clara Zetkin (1920)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetk...
Communism & the Family by Alexandra Kollontai (1920)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/koll...
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0:00 Introduction
0:18 Reading 1
3:00 Half of the Population
3:39 Chicago Gathering (Q&A)
4:18 Socialists & Feminists
5:05 U.S. Origins
5:43 Connection to Second International? (Q&A)
8:20 Pushback? (Q&A)
8:42 The U.N. & IWD
9:14 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
10:10 Reading 2
12:01 Resistance to the Woman Question? (Q&A)
14:53 Feminism & Postmodernism
16:38 Reading 3
19:57 Engels quote
22:24 Cossacks? (Q&A)
23:29 Social Uprisings
23:55 How did this happen? (Q&A)
25:44 Tsar's Trip to the Front
26:15 Analyze things dialectically
28:26 Eisenstein movie
28:51 Reading 4
32:41 Bourgeois co-opting? (Q&A)
34:44 Communism & IWD
36:32 Reading 5
39:05 Accomplishments vs. Protests
39:35 Co-opting icons
40:00 Other holidays? (Q&A)
41:38 IWD celebrations
42:20 Combahee River Collective
43:11 "Waves" of Feminism? (Q&A)
43:59 Petty-Bourgeois Feminists
45:24 Bama-zon
46:17 Identity Politics
47:31 Class "identity"
48:01 Fanny Hechtman
48:55 Pat Sloan quote
52:20 Nadezhda Krupskaya
54:09 Capitalism & Working-Class Mothers
56:18 Reading Recommendations
59:43 Are Communists Feminists? (Q&A)
1:01:08 Proletarian Feminism? (Q&A)
1:02:31 Alexandra Kollontai
1:03:08 Imperialist U.N. tactics? (Q&A)
1:06:34 Co-opting cont.
1:07:42 Re-center our Analysis
1:08:36 Red Detachment of Women
1:12:40 More Reading Recommendations
1:13:31 "Pueblos"
1:13:54 Ending
