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
two competition female
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.
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When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.
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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.
crush class reform
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
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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.
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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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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.