Clara Zetkin
Clara Zetkin
Clara Zetkinwas a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights. In 1911, she organized the first International Women's Day...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 July 1857
CountryGermany
war gains dear-god
The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.
sake
We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.
class exploited interests society
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.
struggle class movement
Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.
women battle demand
When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.
women party issues
What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
women machines modern
The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
women law movement
Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.
struggle class political
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.
attitude important female
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
movement unions facts
Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.
house bears slave
. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.
children home wife
Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.
war fighting weapons
The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.