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Emily Eisner — Red Feminism in the Age of Neoliberalism – Part 2: Radical Feminism Over Liberal & Postmodern Feminisms

Radical feminism is most associated with the “second-wave” or women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Despite this, radical ideas about actualizing women’s liberation, (or at least bringing about full equality to men) through socio-economic revolution have existed in theory and practice since the dawn of Marxism in 1848 and especially Leninism in the early 1900s. This is not to say that Marx, Engels, Lenin, and other male communists were the first or only radically feminist actors. Louise Michel, Alexandra Kollontai, and Clara Zetkin are examples of revolutionary feminist contemporaries of the men whose names carry greater historical legacy. Since the onset of third-wave ideology that coincided with the neoliberal economic and social programs in the West, radical feminism has declined in mainstream the consciousness. However, it offers the deepest, broadest base for today’s revolutionary feminism. To best understand what radical feminism entails, we must first make visible and critique the most popular non-radical feminisms of today–what I refer to as liberal and postmodern queer feminisms.

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