wisdomtooth ago

This is older than the Frankfurt School (cultural marxism).

"“The Government of the proletarian dictatorship, together with the Communist Party and trade unions, is of course leaving no stone unturned in the effort to overcome the backward ideas of men and women, to destroy the old un-communist psychology. ... The children are brought up under more favourable conditions than at home."

Vladimir Lenin, quoted by Clara Zetkin, Lenin on the Women’s Question, 1920.

“Thus when monogamous marriage first makes its appearance in history, it is not as the reconciliation of man and woman, still less as the highest form of such a reconciliation. Quite the contrary. Monogamous marriage comes on the scene as the subjugation of the one sex by the other; it announces a struggle between the sexes unknown throughout the whole previous prehistoric period. In an old unpublished manuscript, written by Marx and myself in 1846, [The reference here is to the German Ideology, published after Engels’ death – Ed.] I find the words: “The first division of labor is that between man and woman for the propagation of children.” And today I can add: The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.”

Frederick Engels, Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State, Ch 2, Part 4, 1884.

"Fourier coined the word féminisme in 1837 and ... as early as 1808, Fourier stated that the level of development of any civilization could be determined by the extent to which its women were liberated. He regarded the position of women in European society as a form of slavery, and ... rejected patriarchy, believing that the existing family structure was partially responsible for the oppression of women."

New World Encylopedia, Charles Fourier.