Endgame! Feminism and the Republic.

“…Plato had little sympathy with democracy as he had seen it in Athens, nor would he have had much sympathy with any regime in which popular approval was an important factor in selecting those who are to direct the workings of society. If government is, as it must be, operated by a chosen minority, then the people’s choice is liable to be a bad choice because the people are so easily deceived. This may show an aristocratic bias; but Plato’s basic preference was not for an aristocracy in the common sense, but for trained expertise. It is true that he thinks this is likely to be provided by heredity guided by eugenics; but expertise and trained ability are the guiding criteria (The Republic, Lee, p.1iii).”

“But Plato, as Sir Karl rightly points out, is a Utopian and a planner; and that approach is more characteristic of the Virtuous Left, as perhaps Bertrand Russell and Professor Fite were suggesting when they pointed to Soviet Russia as the state most nearly run on Platonic principles (p. 1iii).”

Welcome!

For the last forty years, Western civilization and culture has been ravaged by the hate movement known as feminism.

Our degradation didn't happen overnight. It was a slow process, that took place over many years.

While feminists in academia plotted and planned, We the People slept.

While leftists gained control of schools and universities, We the People slept[1][2].

While social engineers abolished the traditional rights of Men in marriage and family life, We the People slept.

While Western women were asked to do the traditional jobs of both men and women, to the point where they as a group are struggling to stay afloat, We the People slept.

Many of today's modern women are either...

1) Highly medicated[3][4]

2) Overweight to the point where it is endangering their health[a][b]

3) Facing uncertain prospects for marriage and children[5][6][7],

Or perhaps for some, dealing with a combination of all of the above. What the feminists have asked the modern woman to do borders on the criminal, and women are literally driving themselves into the ground trying to meet the demands imposed on them from above.

While the Black American family, an institution that survived centuries of slavery and oppression was utterly obliterated[8][9], We the People slept.

While governments have passed, or deliberate passing, abusive acts such as Domestic Violence legislation[10][11], the Patriot Act[12][13], Hate Crime[14][15] laws that threaten constitutionally guaranteed free speech, among other corrosive legislation that, upon its eventual misuse, will threaten our natural and God given rights to life, liberty, and property, We the People slept.

It's time to wake up.

So where are we now?

Where are we going?

What is the endgame?

The endgame, in my view, is the establishment of a State very similar to the entity described by Plato.

Many MRAs who have done the research know about Plato and his influence upon our enemies.

Speaking of MRAs, I would like to give full credit to Steve Farrell for writing the excellent piece entitled, Technology, Sovereignty, and the Third Wave. This is the article that helped me put the pieces of the puzzle together. It is excellent writing, and a must read.

However, many people may not be aware of the connection between Plato and the various leftist movements that threaten to consume what little liberties they have left. And so, this series is dedicated to them.

So that they might understand the scope of the threat, and spread the word.

I will argue in this series that there are people and, I dare say it, a conspiracy of people, that seek to impose on the nations of the world, a "perfect" society as envisioned by a man that lived over two thousand years ago, and wrote his groundbreaking treatise at least three hundred years before the birth of Christ.

Plato, and his book the Republic (and to a lesser extent, his work Laws and other miscellaneous writings) have had an immense and far reaching impact on philosophy and politics that cannot be overstated.

An influence that continues today.

Marxism, Platonism, and the various schools of Feminism do have substantial differences. Feminism in particular, is quite diverse. On the site Plato.stanford.edu we learn that:

Focused as they are on questions about power, those developing fully feminist approaches to ethics offer action guides aimed at subverting rather than reinforcing the present systematic subordination of women. Liberal, Marxist, radical, socialist, multicultural, global, and ecological feminists have each offered a different set of explanations and solutions for this state of affairs. So too have existentialist, psychoanalytic, cultural, and postmodern feminists.

Proponents of these varied schools of feminist thought maintain that the destruction of all systems, structures, institutions, and practices that create or maintain invidious power differentials between men and women is the necessary prerequisite for the creation of gender equality.

Liberal feminists charge that the main cause of female subordination is a set of informal rules and formal laws that block women's entrance and/or success in the public world. Excluded from places such as the academy, the forum, the marketplace, and the operating room, women cannot reach their potential. Women cannot become men's full equals until society grants women the same educational opportunities and political rights it grants men.

Marxist feminists disagree with liberal feminists. They argue that it is impossible for any oppressed person, especially a female one, to prosper personally and professionally in a class society. The only effective way to end women's subordination to men is to replace the capitalist system with a socialist system in which both women and men are paid fair wages for their work. Women must be men's economic as well as educational and political equals before they can be as powerful as men.

Disagreeing with both Marxist and liberal feminists, radical feminists claim that the primary causes of women's subordination to men are women's sexual and reproductive roles and responsibilities. Radical feminists demand an end to all systems and structures that in any way restrict women's sexual preferences and procreative choices. Unless women become truly free to have or not have children, to love or not love men, women will remain men's subordinates.

Seeing wisdom in both radical and Marxist feminist ideas, socialist feminists attempt to weave these separate streams of thought into a coherent whole. For example, in Women's Estate, Juliet Mitchell argues that four structures overdetermine women's condition: production, reproduction, sexuality, and the socialization of children. A woman's status and function in all of these structures must change if she is to be a man's equal. Furthermore, as Mitchell adds in Psychoanalysis and Feminism, a woman's interior world, her psyche, must also be transformed; for unless a woman is convinced of her own value, no change in her exterior world can totally liberate her.

Multicultural feminists generally affirm socialist feminist thought, but they believe it is inattentive to issues of race and ethnicity. They note, for example, that U.S. "white" culture does not praise the physical attractiveness of African American women in a way that validates the natural arrangement of black facial features and bodies, but only insofar as they look white with straightened hair, very light brown skin and thin figures. Thus, African-American women are doubly oppressed. Not only are they subject to gender discrimination in its many forms, but racial discrimination as well.

Although global feminists praise the ways in which multiculturalist feminists have amplified socialist feminist thought, they nonetheless regard even this enriched discussion of women's oppression as incomplete. All too often, feminists focus in a nearly exclusive manner on the gender politics of their own nation. Thus, while U.S. feminists struggle to formulate laws to prevent sexual harassment and date rape, thousands of women in Central America, for example, are sexually tortured on account of their own, their fathers', their husbands', or their sons' political beliefs.

Similarly, while U.S. feminists debate the extent to which contraceptives ought to be funded by the government or distributed in public schools, women in many Asian and African countries have no access to contraception or family planning services from any source.

Surprisingly, some feminist authors have rejected Plato as the "first feminist" because he was not "sensitive" enough to the innermost desires of women.

I will discuss this point later.

However make no mistake, feminists, past and present, have had no qualms with adopting whatever philosophy that would further their goals. Be it Liberalism[16], Marxism[17], or Platonism, they incorporated it as their own, and ran with it.




(John Locke)


However, as we will soon see, Plato is a giant in the eyes of the feminists, towering far above Marx and Locke. Leftists and feminists alike have labored intensively for the fruition of the Platonic state, and even a cursory comparison to the program outlined in the Republic V and the policies and rules advocated by the two groups confirm the truth of this.

The similarities are quite striking, and fortunately of us, the end-game is quite predictable.

While there is no "smoking gun" that directly ties Platonic philosophy to later movements such as Marxism or feminism, anyone who reads Plato's works, and then objectively looks at these two philosophies, can confirm the truth of the matter in their own hearts.

In making my case, I will first present commentary from various authors on Plato in order to prove that Plato's way of thinking greatly inspired later generations of Marxist and feminist thinkers.

Once that this link has been substantially established, I will then move to comparing the ancient words of Plato with the reality of our present day situation, along with commentary from yours truly.

Finally, I will give my predictions of the end-game, or the ideal Leftist-Feminist state, based on Plato's ideals as given primarily in the Republic, and secondarily, in Laws.

Be prepared for a long journey. And where we end up, not even Kumogakure knows.

The game is afoot.

Take care.