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
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.
fighting men hands
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
house bears slave
. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
class exploited interests society
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.