Modern feminism is a gendered form of reconstituted socialism

Apr 1, 2018 by

by George Maggs, Conservative Home:

Traditional Feminism aimed to create a society within which men and women were treated equally, with equal rights and equal access to the same opportunities. Feminists fought successfully to hand women the right to vote, to permit them entry into previously barred professions, and for equal pay for work of equal value.

Once these objectives were achieved however, feminism morphed into something far more sinister. While traditional feminism espoused equality of opportunity for men and women, modern feminism no longer does. Instead, like Marxism, it aims to impose equality of outcome from the centre by restricting the freedom of both men and women.

Classical Liberals and Conservatives should not be afraid to call it out for what it is: a gendered form of reconstituted Socialism.

Marxists view the capitalist system as one of oppression, with the owners of capital (the bourgeois) deliberately and methodically oppressing workers (the proletariat) in a system of class hierarchy. Socialists hope to overturn this unequal system through state ownership of capital and central wealth redistribution. Modern feminism has simply taken the same tired notion of hierarchical oppression and replaced the bourgeois with ‘men’ and the proletariat with ‘women’. Women are seen as the ‘victims’ of a patriarchal system in which men subjugate women to benefit themselves.

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