国际妇女节和社会主义

昨天查到了一个突破我认知的事情——国际妇女节 (International Women’s Day)和社会主义有千丝万缕的联系。

我很想问问我身边的所有朋友，是咱们都不知道，还是，不知道的只有我。。。

联系体现在：

1. 1975年被联合国承认之前，庆祝妇女节的国家大多是社会主义国家。
2. 时至今日，妇女节为法定假日的国家大多是社会主义国家或前社会主义国家。苏联、中国、古巴、越南、智利、布基纳法索，等等。西欧和美国并不庆祝。
3. In the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, huge Soviet-style celebrations were held annually. After the fall of Communism, the holiday, generally considered to be one of the major symbols of the old regime, fell into obscurity. International Women’s Day was re-established as an official “important day” by the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2004[98] on the proposal of the Social Democrats and Communists. This has provoked some controversy as a large part of the public as well as the political right see the holiday as a relic of the nation’s Communist past.[98]
4. In Italy, the holiday is observed by men giving yellow mimosas to women.[100][101] This originated with communist politician Teresa Mattei, who chose the mimosa in 1946 as the symbol of IWD[102] at the request of Luigi Longo.[103] Mattei felt that the French symbols of IWD, violets and lilies of the valley, were too scarce and expensive to be used in poor, rural Italian areas, so she proposed the mimosa as an alternative.[104][105][103]
5. 最后也是最重磅的: The earliest reported Women’s Day event, called “National Woman’s Day“,[11] was held on February 28, 1909, in New York City. It was organized by the Socialist Party of America[12] at the suggestion of activist Theresa Malkiel.[13] There have been claims that the day was commemorating a protest by women garment workers in New York on March 8, 1857, but researchers have described this as a myth intended to detach International Women’s Day from its socialist origin.[14][15][16]

PS：当然，西欧和美国也为男女平等做出了巨大贡献，他们的贡献不容忽视。但是，国际妇女节和社会主义相互交织的历史也不应该被遗忘。