"What made women's labour particularly attractive to the……" — Clara Zetkin
"What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women's wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour."
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Clara Zetkin
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The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.
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When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.
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When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the…
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What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must…
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We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated…
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The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of…
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Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various…
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Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the…
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