Disclaimer: this is just my opinion based on posts we make on lemmygrad.

As the title suggests, it is of my opinion that we do not make a good enough effort at highlighting the accomplishments and contributions of women in revolutions besides Luxembourg and Kolontai. I myself am relatively ignorant on the subject, and it wasn’t until recently in history that we have started to take note of the vast contributions women made, oftentimes in the background, to revolutions or progress in general. I think that it’s a task that shouldn’t just be handed over for the socialist-feminists to deal with either. It should be a conscious effort to make women be seen in revolution and communist societies. It would help us become more approachable and make places like the ussr a real place that wasn’t just the place of great men like Stalin, Lenin or Marx. These happen to be the biggest names in communism but the revolution was not made by them but by the men and women that contributed their lives and careers in upholding communist nations. It is a positive thing to find the ones whose names we’ve forgotten, and give them new life in our minds.

For example: Nadezhda Krupskaya was the secretary of the Central committee and held important positions as a newspaper editor and helped create the Soviet education system. There is also an asteroid named after her.

Anyone got any favorite, underrated socialist women they know?

  • T34 [they/them]
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    212 years ago

    o7 I totally agree!

    One of my favorites is Gerda Lerner. She grew up fighting Nazis in Austria in the 1930s. At one point they came for her dad. Gerda refused to snitch so the Nazis threw her in prison. After she got out, she fled to the US and tried to have a normal life, got married, founded a communist group, had a couple kids. Then she went back to school and became one of the founders of the academic field of women’s history. She wrote The Creation of Patriarchy, a materialist history of the patriarchy that goes back over 5000 years.