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Yes all feminism stemmed from communist politics,
Betty Friedman, a founder of feminism:
Betty Frieden, the "moderate" feminist founder, who hid the fact that she was a Communist activist, compared homemakers to concentration camp victims. Simone de Beauvoir, another Communist founder, said women must not be given a choice to be mothers and homemakers because they'll choose that option. According to feminist Ellen Willis, feminism "is the cutting edge of a revolution in cultural and moral values...The objective of every feminist reform, from legal abortion...to child-care programs, is to undermine traditional family values." (The Nation, Nov. 14, 1981)
"In a new book, "Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique", Smith College professor Daniel Horowitz (no relation) establishes beyond doubt that the woman who has always presented herself as a typical suburban housewife until she began work on her groundbreaking book was in fact nothing of the kind. In fact, under her maiden name, Betty Goldstein, she was a political activist and professional propagandist for the Communist left for a quarter of a century before the publication of "The Feminist Mystique" launched the modern women's movement."
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/friedan-per-horowitz.html
http://www.salon.com/col/horo/1999/01/nc_18horo2.html
"But Horowitz also reveals a dark side to Friedan's social activism: Betty Friedan was a long-time participant in the American Communist movement.
Here is Betty Friedan's true story (page numbers from the Horowitz book are in parentheses):
Friedan was first exposed to socialist thinking while an undergraduate at Smith College in the late 1930s (pp. 39-49).
Beginning in 1940, while still a junior at Smith, Friedan became an outspoken advocate of the Popular Front, a pro-Communist umbrella that embraced a broad range of radical groups (p. 10).
While studying psychology at UC-Berkeley 1942-43, Friedan was a member of the Young Communist League (p. 93).
From 1943 to 1946, Friedan worked as journalist at the Federated Press, a left-wing news service established by Socialist Party members (p. 102).
In 1944, Friedan requested to join the American Communist Party. According to her FBI file, Friedan was turned down because "there already were too many intellectuals in the labor movement" (p. 93).
From 1946 to 1952, Friedan worked as a journalist (some would say "propagandist" is the more accurate term) at the radical United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America. According to historian Ronald Schatz, this labor union was "the largest Communist-lead institution of any kind in the United States." (p. 133)."
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2003/1125roberts.html
Gloria Steinem, another feminist Icon:
"In May 1975, Redstockings, a radical feminist group, raised the question of whether Steinem had continuing ties with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Though she admitted work for a CIA-financed foundation in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Steinem denied any further involvement.[10] Steinem was also a member of Democratic Socialists of America.[11]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem
In a 2002 book, Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Womenâs Liberation, feminist historian Kate Weigand states: âideas, activists and traditions that emanated from the Communist movement of the forties and fifties continued to shape the direction of the new womenâs movement of the 1960s and later.â(154)
In fact, Weigand, a lecturer at Smith College, shows that modern feminism is a direct outgrowth of American Communism. There is nothing that feminists said or did in the 1960âs-1980âs that wasnât prefigured in the CPUSA of the 1940âs and 1950âs. Many second-wave feminist leaders were âred diaper babies,â the children of Communists.
Communists pioneered the political and cultural analysis of womanâs oppression. They originated âwomenâs studies,â and advocated public daycare, birth control, abortion and even childrenâs rights. They forged key feminist concepts such as âthe personal is the politicalâ and techniques such as âconsciousness raising.â
http://revolutionradio.org/?p=21527
Did man really land on the moon?
Q. If so, why could they do in in the 60s but not now? Why aren't people going there all the time and showing us great clear colour images of it? I just don't think it was possible back then, I have no doubts that they could do it now if it is possible to go that far and survive in such an atmosphere.
Um, I just went to google moon and saw nothing but a few fake locations, so fake that you can't zoom in all the way.
Please, I know who the first man that supposedly landed on the moon was. No need to give me names, like that will prove anything. And why is there no purpose in going again? Is it because they have since knocked down the studio that it was originally filmed in or something?
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Firefoxy, get this straight and don't be foolish about it any more, okay? The basic technology required for a manned flight to the moon was developed in Germany in the late 1930s through the mid 1940s. This technology needed a lot of refinement to make a safe manned flight a reality.
We worked on that technology through the 1950s and 60s, and made the first moon flight in 1969. It all fits together, and if you read all the history and don't let the wackos lie to you, it will be impossible for you to continue to be fooled into believing that the moon missions did not take place.
The American people were much better educated and more intelligent in the 1960s and 70s than they are now, and it would never have occurred to NASA engineers and managers that 35 years later a bunch of ignorant dolts with nothing to do would come up with a stupid conspiracy theory stating that the moon landings were faked.
If that had occurred to the engineers, I suspect they would have gone to the trouble to create a larger and more visible object of proof, to compensate for the decline in the quality of the American mind and its education that occurred during and after the Reagan presidency.
But there is a real physical proof available. The astronauts who landed on the moon left behind reflectors that are used every day by astronomers to measure the irregularities of the moon's orbit. This is done by bouncing laser beams off reflectors at known locations that were left by the astronauts. Ask your science teacher for information about these experiments. You can arrange to see this done with your own eyes.
Let me put the question to you this way: If you think the moon landings were faked, when did they become "fake?" When did the idea become popular that NASA had invented the idea of an imaginary moon mission and created a huge technological empire to fool people? When was all this fakery done? In the 60s? 70s? 80s?
And why? What was the point? And how did they fool all the people that reported the news, operated the machinery, built the moon rockets, and watched them take off and land?
Do you realize that one American in 500 was a part of the Apollo program? Millions of them are still alive. Are they fooling you? Why? If you go out to a football game, look around you. In the stadium there are people who worked on the Apollo program.
Ask around. You are surrounded by people who know for sure that American astronauts stood on the moon more than 35 years ago.
And the reason why we have not gone back is that it is terrifically costly and there is no reason to spend money to go back. We found out what we needed to know, and if we ever need to know more, then we will go back then. At the time, we needed to "beat the Russians." That is no longer an issue. So why spend the billions?
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