"Despite her writing and speaking experience during the 1880s, as well as her general political experience working within the socialist movement, not even the active support of the party's leader August Bebel and its chief theoretician Karl Kautsky could secure for Zetkin any more creative work within the party than soliciting advertisements for the party press."
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Anti-war activistsCommunists from GermanySocialists from GermanyWomen activistsSocial Democratic Party of Germany politicians
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Karen Honeycut in European Women on the Left edited by Jane Slaughter and Robert Korn (1981)
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Clara Zetkin
1857 – 1933
deutsche Lehrerin, Journalistin, Politikerin ([[SPD]]), ([[KPD]]) und Frauenrechtlerin
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