Eurasian Feminism and Communism – From the post-Feudal to the post-Communist

Feminism in post-Feudal China

Becoming Madame Mao, Anchee Min’s pseudo-historical account of Madame Mao Jiang Ching, the b-actress who became the communist lady-empress of China, is not a great foundation for an account of Chinese feminism, or even of a Maoist Feminist.

Madame Mao was an upwardly mobile opportunist, not a feminist. But through her defiant and aggressive clawing to the top of the socioeconomic ladder she exemplifies the struggles of being female-bodied in post-feudal china. In a world of presupposed feminine submissiveness, arranged marriages, and a role to be limited to the domestic sphere, maybe being a vengeful ‘white boned demon’ is what it took for her to get the power usually relegated to men.

Where does feminism stop and civil rights activism begin?

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Columbian Exchange: The Politics of New World Dehumanization

Columbian Exchange: The New World was the epicenter in a perfect storm of race and class between the ‘white’ Iberians, ‘brown’ Native Americans, and ‘black’ Africans.

Do you think western religion caused white supremacist apartheid, or just justified it?

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The Antebellum Activists: Gender, Race, and Class in pre-Civil War America

The activism of the American Revolution, Antebellum and Civil War periods transformed the lives and cultures of women along all color lines and racial strata.

Could the reforms of universal suffrage, abolition, and women’s rights have happened without the injustices of slavery and patriarchy?

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Ayn Rand v Pygmies: Does Evolution favor Individualism or Altruism? http://mys.tc/2h3

Ayn Rand v Pygmies: Does Evolution favor Individualism or Altruism? http://mys.tc/2h3

The Deism of America’s Founding Fathers vs The Christian Right

The positivity of the Age of Enlightenment and the previous American experience is gone today as the negativity of the Christian Right reigns supreme.

Why is Christianity correlated with positivity when it’s intrinsically attached to divisive bigotry and negativity?

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(Video) Bill Moyers: Religion, Politics, Paul Ryan, and Ayn Rand

Do you think Ryan’s budget is derivative of Catholic Theology- or Atlas Shrugged?

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(Video) Bill Moyers: Religion, Politics, Paul Ryan, and Ayn Rand

Do you think Ryan’s budget is derivative of Catholic Theology- or Atlas Shrugged?

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The Cult of Rand and the Myth of Reagan

When we wish for modern incarnations of the right’s biggest idols, we feed into the myths surrounding them.

Would the eponymous originators of these cartoonish constructs approve of their dogmatic adherents?

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Why Your View of God Shapes Your View of the Economy

Do you see the economy as fatalistically determined by god? 31% of americans seem to….

Economic perspectives are tied to religious cosmologies. Voters see their money, the market, and the economy as a reflection of their God.

Why Your View of God Shapes Your View of the Economy

Ayn Rand or Jesus Christ? Conservatives Can’t Have It Both Ways

‘This is the ultimate irony in American political life right now, the conservatives who swear on a stack of Bibles that they worship Jesus Christ when they really bow down to the philosophy of Ayn Rand and the golden idol of the free market to be placed at the center of all other things’

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