Vision Forum – May 8, 2008
Lenin on the Evils of Motherhood and Biblical Patriarchy

Perhaps the greatest legacy of the 20th century has been the war on motherhood and biblical patriarchy. Radical feminists, Marxists, and liberal theologians have made it their aim to target the institution of the family and divest it from its biblical structure and priorities. The results are androgyny, a radical decline in birthrate, abortion, fatherless families, and social confusion. The next time you hear professing Christians rail against those who defend the historical and biblical doctrine of motherhood, fatherhood, and the family, consider the similarity of verbiage and sentiments they share with the architect of Soviet communism.

“We must now say proudly and without any exaggeration that apart from Soviet Russia, there is not a country in the world where women enjoy full equality and where women are not placed in the humiliating position felt particularly in day-to-day family life. This is one of our first and most important tasks…”

“Housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman…The building of socialism will begin only when we have achieved the complete equality of women and when we undertake the new work together with women who have been emancipated from that petty stultifying, unproductive work…We are setting up model institutions, dining-rooms and nurseries, that will emancipate women from housework…These institutions that liberate women from their position as household slaves are springing up where it is in any way possible…Our task is to make politics available to every working woman.”

The Task of the Working Women’s Movement in the Soviet Republic, Lenin, 1919