International Women's Day (pt. 1/2) - PSMLS Audio

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! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information 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... PSMLS LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/PSMLS Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ 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-optin