Mar 17 War on women? Socialists always make the claim that people who believe in economic freedom are waging a war on women. The Russian Communists always claimed their women were freer than the women of the Western enterprise economies and made more money too. But when the Iron Curtain came down we got a good look at their high tech factories where their jet aircraft were made. The craftsmen were almost all men but the plant engineers were about half women. The women engineers were paid less than the manual workers and the men engineers were paid almost double.

The assembly line itself had wooden support structures instead of steel so they changed shape with both temperature and humidity making aircraft quality control very poor.  Their jet engines were Neanderthal quality.  They set their flight speed records by running the engines to their redline limits during those records.  So while American military engines had 10000 hours operating life left and commercial engines get 30,000 hours of life, a Russian four hour speed record would be made with an engine that landed with no engine life left at all remaining.   

The American jet engine’s hot section had single crystal blades that were cast hollow so they were internally cooled and could operate a few hundred degrees hotter than the Russians could. The Russians tried and just did not even have the capability to copy the American turbine blades or the American electronic technology even when they tried.  In the communist countries the women continually worked in factories the way American women had to work in America during WWII.  But during peace time American women have the freedom to do anything they want as long as they study and pass the requirements. 

It was Karl Marx who advised all socialists to accuse the people who believe in economic and personal freedom of waging a war on women.  He said that was very important for their communist propaganda.  

“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”  Karl Marx