Woman and Socialism

Although the change in the position of women is obvious to all who go through life with open eyes, we still continue to hear the idle talk that the home and the family are woman...

As soon as society has become the owner of all means of production, the duty to work of all able-bodied persons, regardless of sex, becomes a fundamental law of socialized socie...

There are people who regard the question of population as one of the most important and urgent of all, because, they claim that we are threatened with over-population, indeed, t...

Marriage constitutes one phase of the sex relations of bourgeois society; prostitution constitutes the other. If men fail to find satisfaction in marriage, they, as a rule, seek...

The social dependence of a race, class, or sex, always finds expression in the laws and political conditions of the country in question. The laws of a country are the formulated...

Land, being the prime raw material for all human labor and the basis of human existence, must be made the property of society, together with the means of production and distribu...

As soon as the patriarchate, that is, paternal descent, was established in the gentile organization of the Jews, the daughters were excluded from inheritance. Later this rule wa...

The endeavor of women to earn their own living and to attain personal independence is, to some extent at least, regarded as a just one by bourgeois society. The bourgeoisie requ...

When we consider the conditions enumerated above, it requires no further proof to recognize that a growing number of persons do not regard the wedded state as a desirable goal,...

The usual advice to women to seek their salvation in marriage, this being their true profession, is thoughtlessly approved of by the vast majority of men. But it seems like mock...

It is the common lot of woman and worker to be oppressed. The forms of oppression have differed in successive ages and in various countries, but the oppression itself remained....

The capitalistic system of production not only dominates the social organization but also the political organization. It influences and controls the thoughts and sentiments of s...

The economic revolution in industry and trade has also largely affected agricultural conditions. The commercial and industrial crises affect the rural population likewise. Hundr...

The part played by church and state in this sort of “sacred marriage” is not a worthy one. The state official or the officiating clergyman whose task it is to perform the marria...

The robust, physically healthy, coarse but unsophisticated peoples that during the first centuries after Christ came from the North and East, flooding like mighty ocean waves th...

The development of society has been a very rapid one in all civilized states of the world during recent decades, and any new achievement in any realm of human activity still has...

“Marriage and the family are the foundations of the state. Whoever, therefore, attacks marriage and the family, is attacking society and the state and undermining both.” Thus ex...

The late member of the German diet, Dr. Lasker, delivered a lecture in Berlin, during the seventies, in which he arrived at the conclusion that it is possible for all members of...

Man should be given an opportunity for perfect development. That is the purpose of human association. So he must not remain tied down to the spot where he has been placed by the...

The healthy sensuality of the middle ages found its classic exponent in Luther. We are here not so much concerned with the religious reformer, but with Luther, the man. In regar...

The crisis arises because no standard exists whereby the real demand for a commodity may at any time be measured and ascertained. There is no power in bourgeois society that is...

In present-day bourgeois society woman holds the second place. Man leads; she follows. The present relation is diametrically opposite to that which prevailed during the matriarc...

This chapter may be brief. It merely contains the conclusions that may be drawn in regard to the position of woman in future society, from all that has been said so far; conclus...

Following the example set by Louis XIV. of France, most of the princely courts, that were very numerous in Germany in those days, indulged in an extravagance of outward display,...

While in the Roman empire the marriage and birthrate were permitted to decline more and more, the Jews maintained far different customs. The Jewess was not entitled to choose he...

The tide rises and undermines the foundation of state and society. Every one feels that the pillars are swaying and that only powerful props can support them. But to erect such...

1. Fear of Over-Population 478 2. Production of Over-Population 481 3. Poverty and Fecundity 484 4. Lack of Human Beings and Abundance of Food 487 5. Social Conditions and Repro...

But an existence worthy of human beings cannot be the manner of living of a single privileged nation, for, being isolated from all other nations, it could neither establish nor...

When, in the new society, the young generation has come of age, the further education will be every person’s own concern. Every one will do whatever his inclinations and talents...

With the increase in population a number of sister gentes arose that again brought forth several daughter gentes. The mother gens was distinguished from these as the phratry. A...

When we review what has been set forth so far, we find that, with the abolition of the private ownership of the means of production, and their transformation into social propert...

As with the state, so it will be with religion. It will not be “abolished,” God will not be “dethroned,” people will not be “robbed of their faith,” as all the foolish arguments...

1. Duty to Work of All Able-bodied Persons 370 2. Harmony of Interests 375 3. Organization of Labor 380 4. The Growth of the Productivity of Labor 383 5. Removal of the Contrast...

1. Abolition of the Private Ownership of Land 407 2. The Amelioration of Land 409 3. Changed Methods of Farming 414 4. Agriculture on a Large and Small Scale--Electric Appliance...

Patriarchate_ 28 1. Rise of the Patriarchate 28 2. Traces of the Matriarchate in Greek Myths and Dramas 34 3. Legitimate Wives and Courtesans in Athens 37 4. Remnants of the Mat...

1. The Revolution in Domestic Life 233 2. The Intellectual Abilities of Women 239 3. Differences in Physical and Mental Qualities of Man and Woman 245 4. Darwinism and the Condi...

of Bourgeois Society_ 174 1. Prostitution and Society 174 2. Prostitution and the State 178 3. The White Slave Trade 188 4. The Increase of Prostitution--Illegitimate Motherhood...

1. The Position of Women among the Germans 63 2. Feudalism and the Right of the First Night 66 3. The Rise of Cities--Monastic Affairs--Prostitution 69 4. Knighthood and the Ven...