Editing Feminism (section)

=== Patriarchy ===
Infrared’s view is that all forms of governance are patriarchies and that male authority over other men is necessary for women’s equality.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20220519094025/https://twitter.com/InfraHaz/status/1527222487989338112</ref>
The current leftist stranglehold on the CPUSA has maintained that feminism, in most of its manifestations, is a struggle which as a kin to that of the class struggle. Many cadres of the CPUSA, including some of its leading members, have suggested that patriarchal relations are present even in the subconscious actions of its already mentally ill members: <blockquote>“Many male comrades think that just because they believe in women’s liberation and sexual equality, they are somehow entirely innocent and no longer participate in male-dominating behaviors.”<ref>https://www.cpusa.org/party_voices/convention-discussion-the-party-women-s-liberation/</ref></blockquote>Despite the mentally ill notions on the matter which have developed within the CPUSA, the international Communist movement has long entertained a stance which was fundamentally contradictory to bourgeois feminism. In Germany, the Social Democratic Party had long advocated that the struggle for women’s rights be secondary to the struggle of male-dominated general labour (women tend to occupy far more non-proletarian jobs). Following the collapse of the German Empire in 1918, the workers and soldiers councils formed in large German cities only entertained the voting rights of, well, workers and soldiers: primarily a male enterprise. Bourgeois feminists tended to side with the majority Social Democratic Party (as opposed to the Communists) and the new Weimar government, as they were granted limited suffrage.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/3779072?saml_data=eyJzYW1sVG9rZW4iOiJiMTM4ZGQxNy0xYmExLTRjMDUtOTI0Yi03Y2I4Y2RjNDAzM2IiLCJpbnN0aXR1dGlvbklkcyI6WyIxMjJiMTFjOS00YWE5LTQzY2UtYWQzZS0xMmUyYTE4YmU3ZWUiXX0&seq=3</ref> It would be completely untrue to state, however, that there was no interest in the emancipation among the Communist movments of the early 20th century. Communists were interested in the emancipation of women and the removal of patriarchy insofar as its aim was attached to the betterment of the position of general labour.