question 1a: CORRECT! Communists support women's emancipation without qualification. Please skip to the next question.

1b: The males may not come to it as naturally, but they support women's emancipation, too. Please read the selection or just try another answer.

1c: Our practice comes from our theory and are generally the same. Please read the selection or just try another answer.

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1d: Americans like to think of ourselves as being ahead on questions of women's emancipation, but are American Communists somehow more advanced than those of other countries? Please read the selection or just try another answer.

1e: Women have always struggled against their subjugation, but a lot of us think of the "women's liberation movement" as something that happened in the 1960s and 1970s. That was many years after Lenin's days. Please read the selection or just try another answer.

question 2a: Women weren't always oppressed. You might want to read Engels' great work "Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State" or the summary here in this school. Or just read the selection or just try another answer.

2b: CORRECT! Under the earliest days of savagery or primitive communism, women were valued as highly as men. As primitive people began to create a surplus of wealth, it was seized and became private property. The men who held it subjugated women in order to be certain of who their heirs were. To this day, there are restrictions against women owning property in some parts of the world. Please skip to the next question.

2c: Some say that the age of chivalry gave people an erroneous idea of women's needs and rights, but that's not the main historical problem. Please read the selection or just try another answer.

2d: "Southern notions" of female vulnerability are certainly incorrect, but women's subjugation started long before that. Please read the selection or just try another answer.

2e: Subjugation of women is neither natural nor even historically consistent. Please read the selection or just try another answer.

question 3a: CORRECT! Women's subjugation came about when they were removed from the production process. Under socialism, they will play a full role in the productive process and will finally achive complete emancipation. Please skip to the next question.

3b: By what process are women going to gain the power to force men to do things? Please read the selection or just try another answer.

3c: The idea that men are women's enemy distracts from the real struggle against capitalist rule. Please read the selection or just try another answer.

3d: This "natural state" argument is the fundamental ideology of male supremacists and must be combatted at every turn. Please read the selection or just try another answer.

3e: When would men give up their ideas of superiority? Why would they? Please read the selection or just try another answer.

question 4a: Yes they do. Please read the selection or just try another answer.

4b: Yes they do. Please read the selection or just try another answer.

4c: CORRECT! Actually, Lenin disparaged promiscuous and skirt-chasing behavior. He said that such people were untrustworthy. Their error was in putting their immediate personal gratification above the struggle for a better life for everyone. Counterculturists in America during the 1960s and 1970s often made the same mistake. They were so busy "practicing socialism" in their own personal lives that they were pretty ineffective in everything else. Thanks for doing this little module and please advise me of any errors or possible improvements -- Jim Lane

4d: Yes they do. Please read the selection or just try another answer.

4e: Yes they do. Please read the selection or just try another answer.