1. Now that Donald Trump has won the 2024 Republican nomination for president, women’s liberation activists point to the following acts of his first administration as reasons why he must be defeated:

a. Eliminating federal funding for the United Nations Population Fund and other international funding projects dealing with women’s reproductive rights and health
b. Actively refusing to enforce the Obama administration’s strengthening of the Equal Pay Act by permitting corporations receiving government contracts not to report the wages and salaries they pay workers based on gender
c. Censoring references to contraception, abortion, and sex education from the Department of Health and Human Services and eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups under the federal government’s family planning program
d. All of the above

2. The campaign for reproductive rights, which resulted in the Roe v. Wade decision making abortion legal in the U.S., was led by

c. the National Organization for Women.

3. For Marxists and Communists, the struggle to achieve gender equality has special importance because

b. it is fundamental to achieving working class unity and ending the super-exploitation of women, which is a source of super-profits for capitalism.

4. As Karl Marx noted about the struggles of the working class generally, the struggle for women’s liberation faces contradictions, detours, and setbacks, which must be understood dialectically to advance the fight. Which of the following are examples of these contradictions in recent decades?

a. Advances made by women in employment in the arts, sciences, and other professions have been accompanied by the loss of social benefits to single parent households and the declining incomes of “pink-collar” workers.
b. The defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment and the failure so far by Congress to revive it
c. The “glass ceiling” effect preventing women from advancing through promotions in fields where they previously had no positions, and the undermining of legislation and policy to establish equal pay for equal work
d. All of the above

5. Women members of the Communist Party USA have made major contributions to a wide variety of people’s struggles and victories throughout U.S. history. Which one of the following was not a Communist?

b. Phyllis Schafley

Your score:

0 wrong: Theoretician. Write an article! Teach a class!!

1 wrong: Developed Marxist. Form a study group, join the party.

2 to 3 wrong: Developing Marxist. Keep studying and stay in the struggle!

4 to 5 wrong: Danger! Deviations possible. Study and then study some more lest you drift into the marsh of opportunism!