"The woman of the proletariat has achieved her economic independence but neither as a person nor as a woman or wife does she have the possibility of living a full life as an individual. For her work as wife and mother she gets only the crumbs that are dropped from the table by capitalist production. Consequently, the liberation struggle of the proletarian woman cannot be – as it is for the bourgeois woman, a struggle against the men of their own class. She does not need to struggle, as against the men of her own class, to tear down the barriers erected to limit her free competition... The end goal of her struggle is not free competition with men, but bringing about the political rule of the proletariat. Hand in hand with the men of her own class, the proletarian woman fights against capitalist society."
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As quoted in Clara Zetkin and the German Socialist Feminist Movement, marxists.org, 1896
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Clara Zetkin
1857 – 1933
deutsche Lehrerin, Journalistin, Politikerin ([[SPD]]), ([[KPD]]) und Frauenrechtlerin
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