It all started with the Frankfurt School Marxists, who were German Jews Marxist intellectuals. They fled Germany (Frankfurt) in 1933 when Hitler became Chancellor, and were taken in by the US as refugees in 1934
In the US they developed the "Critical Theory" model of orthodox Marxism.
The most consequential of these academics was a philosopher named Herbert Marcuse. Marcuse was probably the most controversial and compelling non-Soviet,Marxist philosopher of the 20th century.
Marcuse was a "brilliant" man and a seductive wordsmith, unfortunately' he was also - like his idol, "Old man, Marx" evil to the core.
By the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, he was teaching in some of America's most prestigous Universities: Columbia, Brandeis, UCSD and others. He became the charismatic Guru of the 1960's student counterculture movement in America. The student slogan: "SEX and DRUGS and ROCK and ROLL" was coined by Marcuse.
To cut a long story short, Marcuse, like all Marxists, wanted to destroy America's capitalist economy. He realised that America's capitalist system is founded on the bedrock of the institution of the traditidional, patriarchal married family (nuclear family).
Given this he began to plant and fertilise the first seeds of what would become the so-called 2nd-wave feminist movement in the United state. 2nd-Wave feminism in America was angry, extremely divisive and ultimately extremely destructive - there were all sorts of different 2-wave feminist groups: "Marxist", "Socialist", "Radical", etc. What they had in common was that they were hostile uncompromising, often bellicose and belligerent - consumed with resentment and bitterness for the way the American patriarchy had, they believed dominated and oppressed over so many years.
A lot of people say that the American 2nd-Wave feminist movement officially began in 1969. That was the year when Betty Friedan, an American housewife- ( who was also a part-time journalist, and closet-communist) - had her book "The Feminine Mystique" published. In the book she painted a grim picture of married life for women: the suffocating boredom of domestic life;, being trapped in the house all day, like a prisoner in a cell, the tedium and restrictions imposed by child-raising, the inability to pursue one's inner potentials, the monotony of having only one lover, and so on and on.
Friedan's, "The Feminine Mystique" was a best-seller when it was released at the end of the 1960s. In the following years it was influential in
* Passing "No Fault Divorce" legislation - ultimately in all 50 states of the Union. This meant that by law, women no longer need a valid, justifiable reason for legally terminating their marriage. DIVORCE RATES WENT THROUGH THE ROOF. The children would found themselves in broken families as a result suffered, and as we now know for a fact, were typically doomed to poor, future life outcomes.
* The popular success of Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" energised the American feminist movement of the early 70's. One upshot of this was that the Feminist movement activists managed to acquire some real political power across America. Between 1973 and 2022 there were over 63,000,000 million abortions performed in the US. I am not a saintly person (far from it !!) but when I contemplate that number - just for a few seconds- I clearly sense that this is a manifestation of something very evil.
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