A Marxist IQ for Women's History Month by Norman Markowitz

by: Friday 6 March 2015

 

Sorry to be nearly a week late for this month's IQ

 

 

1.        Marxist-Feminists contend  that under capitalism

a.       Women have equal opportunity with men

b.      Women are exploited in work as cheap labor and at home as unpaid labor

c.       Women can find happiness only  through marriage and child rearing

d.      Women must prove their equality to men by starting businesses

 

2.       Women have  played important  leadership roles in the history of the CPUSA.  Which of the following women was  not a leading CPUSA activist

a.       Claudia Jones

b.      Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

c.       Zora  Neale Hurston

d.      Angela Davis

 

3.       Marxists have seen the question of women’s rights/women’s liberation as

a.       a question of women’s cultural identity

b.      a question of integrating corporate management so that women will be equal with men

c.       a   civil rights question, one of integrating on the basis of equality employment  and all areas of life,  which must be implemented to unite the working class and achieve social progress

d.      a question that is secondary to civil rights questions

 

4.       The first women to hold cabinet level positions in governments in history, according to UN studies were

a.       Women in Soviet Russia, Ukraine,  and the brief  Hungarian Soviet, during the revolutionary upsurge of 1917-1920

b.      Women in Britain under Liberal party governments in the late 19th century

c.       Women in the U.S. in the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in the early 20th century

d.      Women in the German Empire under Otto Von Bismarck in the late 20th century

 

 

5.       According  to World Bank studies, the proportion of women in the U.S. Congress is currently 18%.  The nation with the highest percentage of women in their parliament/ congress, currently 49% is

a.Russian Federation

b. Cuba

c. Ireland

d.Libya

 

Correct Answers to Last Month’s IQ

1.c

2.d

3.c.

4.b

 

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  • Sean and E.E.W. are right. It is Cuba. Ironically or pathetically, the Russian Federation, today has 14% lower as against the U.S. 18%
    Norman Markowitz

    Posted by norman markowitz, 03/14/2015 3:47pm (10 years ago)

  • 1. b

    2. c

    3. c

    4. a

    5. b

    I made sure not to look at EE Clay's answers.

    Posted by Sean Mulligan, 03/11/2015 3:45pm (10 years ago)

  • The Communists, have had a consistent policy of men fully supporting the liberation of women, from and through the capitalism identified in question 1. : b, and men are expected and encouraged to be male feminists like both Frederic Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois, the latter a Communist.

    1. b
    2. c
    3. c
    4. a
    5. b

    On multiple guess 5., Rwanda and Cuba run neck and neck in this category, but the present writer guesses Cuba, since Cuba is the land of maybe the planet's greatest living communist, Fidel Castro Ruz.

    Question 4., some would say gives the Soviets too much credit, but the present writer strongly disagrees.
    In 1917, the inception of International Women's Day through the Soviets, the powerful push by women to join the military, the industrial working class, the great and righteous struggle of women for legal and civil rights on par with men, the tremendous Zhenotdel set up by the Soviet Communist Party, and leaders like the great Alexandra Kollontai, of this period, changed human history and women's role in it, and all Women's History Months to come.

    Posted by E.E.W. Clay, 03/09/2015 10:08am (10 years ago)

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