This is how the left stole feminism to disguise theories arising from Marxism

"To dispute a doubtful point, proposing the reasons, evidence and foundations of one side and the other. To cast doubt on what someone has stated." This is how the RAE defines the verb "to question".

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There is a very healthy intellectual exercise that consists of applying this verb to ideologies. Every system of ideas must be questioned and subjected to contrast with reality through reasons, evidence and foundations, because if we do not do so, we risk sustaining a lot of fallacies with no other recourse than censorship and insults against those who have a contrary opinion than us. Curiously, one of Spain's most widely read newspapers, the progressive daily El País, has decided that questioning an ideology is wrong when it comes to its ideology.

If you question leftist feminism, are you a 'sexist'?

The "Verne" section of the leftist newspaper published a news item yesterday entitled "A one-minute monologue to dismantle the existence of hembrismo". The news item uses the word "feminism" to refer to leftist feminism or gender feminism, which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from the Marxist ranks. The second paragraph of the article begins like this: "People who question feminism, that is, sexist people, also use their own linguistic catalogue." The statement I put in bold responds to a tone that is becoming more and more common in progressive ranks: anyone who contradicts leftist ideological theses is insulted or has police words used (sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ultra-rightist, fascist, retrograde...). But now they no longer only insult those who contradict them: they also insult those who question them. El País is demanding that its readers have blind faith in an ideology. Pure fanaticism.

A feminist was the first to warn about gender feminism

It is not the first time that El País has swung like this. Last week, in that same section of the newspaper, they tried to deny the existence of gender ideology, attributing that term to the Catholic Church and specifically to Pope Benedict XVI. If El País were to put aside its phobia of Catholicism for even a minute, it would realize that that term has its origins in a book published by a liberal feminist, Christina Hoff Sommers, PhD in Philosophy, entitled "Who Stole Feminism?" (1994). The author justified the publication of this book by stating that "I am a feminist who does not like what feminism has become". In her work, Christina Hoff Sommers distinguished between equity feminism, that of the pioneers of feminism, which fights for equal opportunities from a liberal perspective and with which the author identifies, and gender feminism, which uses victimhood to impose the theses of "political correctness" and deny the right to dissent.

Gender ideology: from Friedrich Engels to Shulamith Firestone

Three years later, in 1997, Dr. Dale O'Leary published the book "The Gender Agenda: Redefining Equality", in which, like Christina Hoff Sommers, she distinguished between original feminism, which called for equal rights for women, and Feminism or gender ideology, which considers women to be an oppressed class at the hands of men. O'Leary explored the origins of this theory in the work of communist thinker Friedrich Engels, and noted its beginnings in the book "The Dialectic of Sex" (1970) by radical feminist Shulamith Firestone, who, based on Marxist theories, stated: "Just as the ultimate goal of the socialist revolution was not only to end economic class privilege, but the very distinction between economic classes, the ultimate goal of the feminist revolution must be, unlike the first feminist movement, not simply to end male privilege, but the distinction between the sexes itself." I already told you about it in an article published on this blog in 2015.

They are using the term 'feminism' to disguise Marxist theories

In short: as Christina Hoff Sommers points out, the left has stolen the term "feminism" to use it as a cover for ideas that have nothing to do with the struggle for equality of the original feminism, specifically ideas that emerged from the Marxist ranks and that otherwise would not have taken root in our society. And now, to prevent anyone from questioning this theft, to prevent anyone from disagreeing, and surely due to a lack of solid arguments to rationally support the nonsense of this gender ideology, the left calls "sexist" anyone who points out the intellectual fraud that is being committed. A way of arguing typical of authoritarian movements that do not allow the free debate of ideas.