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(8 votes)   The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

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(7 votes)   We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

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(40 votes)   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.

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(35 votes)   As a consequence of their low wages, the women are transformed from mere competitors into unfair competitors who push down the wages of men.

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(16 votes)   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?

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(12 votes)   In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women's wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour.

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(11 votes)   In Rosa Luxemburg the socialist idea was a dominating and powerful passion of both mind and heart, a consuming and creative passion.

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(11 votes)   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.

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(10 votes)   Cheap women's labour eliminates the work of men and if the men want to continue to earn their daily bread, they must put up with low wages.

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(10 votes)   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.

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(10 votes)   What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

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(9 votes)   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.

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(9 votes)   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.

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(8 votes)   We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

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(7 votes)   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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