Why I Don’t Celebrate International Women’s Day—And Why You Shouldn’t Either
On Saturday, March 8, 2025, my daughter appeared frustrated when she asked me, “What day is it today? You don’t even know. It’s Women’s Day!” Of course, I knew exactly what “day” it was, but I responded, “I don’t celebrate a day instituted by murderous communists.” My answer, though abrupt, was intended to spark a discussion—one that, regrettably, never went beyond these few words. This missed conversation, however, inspired me to write this short essay on the origins of International Women’s Day, a holiday that is embraced widely and uncritically but nevertheless carries the bloody legacy of one of the most destructive ideologies in human history.
International Women’s Day was officially established on March 8, 1922, by Vladimir Lenin, the architect of the Bolshevik Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union. (It was later officially recognized by the United Nations on the same day in 1977). Lenin, a staunch revolutionary and ardent materialist atheist, led the October Revolution of 1917, which marked the beginning of communist rule in Russia. The revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, overthrew the Provisional Government and established a totalitarian Marxist state.
The Russian Revolution began on March 8, 1917, when female workers in Petrograd (what is now known as Saint Petersburg) initiated protests over food shortages, economic hardship, and political repression. This unrest quickly escalated into full-scale rebellion, leading to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the eventual Bolshevik coup later that year. The Tsar was later executed alongside his family in 1918. To commemorate the role of women in this uprising, Lenin institutionalized March 8 as a day to celebrate women’s contributions to socialism and revolution. Thus, from its inception, International Women’s Day was never about honoring women in any universal sense but, rather, about advancing Marxist ideology.
The revolution gave rise to one of the bloodiest regimes in history. Under Lenin and his successor, Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union transformed into a nightmarish landscape marked by forced collectivization (which compelled farmers to surrender their land and farms to state control), purges, and mass executions. The Bolshevik Revolution claimed millions of lives through civil war, political purges, engineered famines, and gulags. The total death toll of the Soviet regime—directly resulting from communist policies—exceeds 20 million people. Beyond Russia, communism, in its various implementations, has caused the deaths of over 100 million people worldwide. These facts are seldom taught in our public schools.
The same tactics of “ideological subversion” that destroyed Russia’s foundations now drive the agenda of modern globalist leaders. Soviet defector and former KGB propagandist Yuri Bezmenov warned throughout the 1970s and 1980s that communism does not rely on military conquest alone; instead, it weakens nations from within by eroding their cultural, moral, and Christian foundations. Lenin applied this strategy early, using Marxist ideology to break down traditional structures and secure total state control. His policies directly attacked marriage, religion, and gender roles—not to promote equality but to dismantle natural hierarchies that stood in the way of collectivism. By advancing radical feminism and undermining family structures, the Bolsheviks sought to sever personal loyalties to anything beyond the state.
Bezmenov’s warnings continue to play out today as globalist leaders like Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney advance policies that undermine Western civilization. Trudeau, an open admirer of China’s “basic dictatorship,” has championed radical policies that weaken family structures and blur biological realities. Meanwhile, Carney, a globalist technocrat with deep ties to the World Economic Forum, appears poised to further this agenda. Should he assume greater political leadership in Canada—a scary but perhaps very real possibility given the resurgence of Liberals in polls (even if unreliable) throughout the Trump tariff fiasco—he will only accelerate the dismantling of traditional family values, redefining gender roles, diminishing parental rights, and imposing ideological conformity.
The ripple effects of these policies are evident in modern radical feminist movements that seek to erase biological distinctions between men and women, devalue motherhood, and eliminate traditional family roles. Lenin’s Marxist policies shattered traditional values, attacked religious institutions, and sought to erase the family as the bedrock of civilization. The same destructive ideology persists today, now masquerading under the guise of progress and equality.
Still, each year, countless people thoughtlessly celebrate March 8, oblivious to its bloody origins. They fail to recognize that this “holiday” was created not to honor women but to enlist them as foot soldiers for a communist cause that saw them as mere tools for revolution. Women’s dignity and worth do not require validation from an ideology that slaughtered its own people, suppressed dissent, and reduced individuals to mere cogs in the machinery of the state.
True respect for women does not come from hollow, politically motivated celebrations. It comes from recognizing the natural, complementary roles of men and women, valuing the inimitable contributions of wives and mothers, and honoring womanhood—not as a political tool but as a divine and natural reality. It does not derive from a holiday formed in the fires of Bolshevism but from timeless truths that long preceded and will outlast every Marxist deception. Women should be celebrated every day, for they alone possess the sacred ability to bring new life into the world—human beings created in the image of God, endowed with eternal worth. This sacred ability remains one of the greatest mysteries and miracles of creation.
So no, I do not celebrate International Women’s Day. And neither should you.
