I argue that from 1920 onward, Communist women pioneered efforts to link social reproduction to women’s unwaged labor and care work. Communist women discussed the economic and social conditions necessary for mothers and families, attentive to class, ethnic, and racial inequalities. This way they formulated core principles of intersectionality and reproductive justice before these frameworks entered mainstream feminist discourse.

You know, I hate to be the guy who is vagueposting about a dumb thing that I saw online, but I really liked this article because it feels like it directly counterargues against a dumb thing I saw online, which was a statement of "intersectionality is incompatible with principled Marxist-Leninism". Which is, on its face, a bad argument and I don't want to give it a lot of air.

But! If you would like a good article to throw in the face of someone who makes that dumb sort of argument, this is a good one. Historical analysis, well argued and interesting.

The interwar Communist Women’s Movement was not a passive recipient of Comintern or Soviet directives but an active, theoretically innovative vanguard that positioned women’s emancipation at the center of socialist transformation. By linking unwaged domestic labor to social reproduction, the movement pioneered a profound rethinking of care work as a structural economic and political question.