Not only does a great body of readily-accessible historical, statistical, and documentary evidence exist to refute the claims made by feminists and other critical theorists, but a great many independent researchers have worked to identify the individuals and institutions responsible for feminism and other social engineering programs and in many cases elucidate their motivations. I recommend in particular the work of Karen Straughan and Jan Irvin. I am personally working to contribute to this research with a thesis of my own entitled, "Totalitarianism and the Sexualization of the State".

Basically, the end of feudalism, under which a serf was viewed as the property of his or her master, coincided with the creation of the modern scientific method during a period of time often referred to as The Enlightenment. Towards the end of this period, practitioners of the newly-developed science of Psychology such as Sigmund Freud, Ivan Pavlov, and B. F. Skinner developed an understanding of the human (and animal) mind which certain of the reigning feudalists realized would be invaluable in creating a new form of totalitarian control based on scientific principles. This was the birth of the modern nation state.

As it relates to gender, one of the key realizations of these scientists was that women and men respond differently to certain stimuli. For example, a woman will typically respond to threats with appeasement, while men will respond with threats of their own. This appears to be directly related to the amount of testosterone in the individual and its effect on key brain structures, and the response of individuals with relatively lower amounts of testosterone will be relatively more feminine, and vice versa.

There was also the fact that societies tended to be organized around what came to be called the Nuclear Family, deriving at least nominal authority from the father, and since these would-be totalitarians would suffer no authority besides that of the state, they realized that upending the existing social order would handily deliver the mother and her children into their (the state's) grasp. In other words, they contrived to replace dependence on men with dependence on the state.

It's telling that the first generation of globalists, that of Marx and Lenin, thought they would easily persuade the workers of the world to give up their old order for 'equality' with the new. It turned out that people in general -- no matter how downtrodden -- preferred a world in which they had a sense of purpose, even if it meant having to work terribly hard, to the world of bland materialism offered by the communists. As it became obvious that the revolutionary theory of Marx and Lenin was being disproven by the people's stubborn adherence to family, church, and culture, a new group of wealthy families called the Fabian Society formed with the intention of implementing a multi-generational approach. Thus began what they called the "long march through the institutions".

I'll close with a few anecdotes to illustrate my claims:

The man (naturally) who broke the taboo against women smoking was none other than Edward Bernays, nephew to the aforementioned Dr. Freud and the first person documented using the word 'propaganda' in its modern sense. His motivation? Why, he was paid to do so by the American Tobacco Company, of course.

Gloria Steinem, former Playmate and founder of Ms. Magazine, has admitted to being a CIA asset. Lest it be assumed that hers was some minor role, it should be known that her 'handler' was a man named C. D. Jackson, the famously-absent editor of Time-Life and Fortune magazines. His many claims to fame include purchasing the only known copy of the Zapruder film and locking it away in a Time-Life vault, granting the US intelligence agencies an invaluable resource known as plausible deniability

Most tragic are the dubious motivations of Margaret Sanger, a life long eugenicist and a proponent of scientific racism. While some applaud her sponsorship of the first female birth control pill, allegations that she was also in favor of forced sterilization are met with awkward apology after awkward apology.

To close, it's this last point that is the most damning of the modern Left. In the final historical analysis, it is an ideology which cannot create, but only destroy. Indeed, the social engineers of the 20th Century were as successful as any devil could have dreamed. However, the result was a population that was not only dependent but demoralized and demotivated, to the extent that when they belatedly began their final attempts to mobilize the masses into something resembling a revolution, they found that most people (and men in particular) simply couldn't be bothered to get off the couch.