Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Woman under socialism

We live in the age of a great social Revolution, that every day makes further progress. A growingly powerful intellectual stir and unrest is noticeable in all the layers of society; and the movement pushes towards deep-reaching changes. All feel that the ground they stand on s...

Chapters

11. Chapter 11

The soon as possible general expropriation of all the means of production furnishes society with a new foundation. The conditions of life and labor--in manufacture, agriculture,...

7. Chapter 7

The endeavor of woman to secure economic self-support and personal independence has, to a certain degree, been recognized as legitimate by bourgeois society, the same as the end...

2. Chapter 2

Woman and the workingman have, since old, had this in common--_oppression_. The forms of oppression have suffered changes in the course of time, and in various countries. But th...

4. Chapter 4

Plato thanked the gods for eight favors bestowed upon him. As the first, he took it that they had granted him to be born a freeman, and not a slave; the second was that he was c...

3. Chapter 3

The opposite of polygamy,--as we have learned to know it among Oriental peoples, and as it still exists among them, but owing to the number of available women and the cost of th...

5. Chapter 5

Cast in the mold of the conditions above described, many a feature of woman's character took shape, and they reached ever fuller development from generation to generation. On th...

9. Chapter 9

During the last few decades and in all countries of civilization, the economic life of society has assumed an uncommonly rapid pace of development, a development that every prog...

6. Chapter 6

Marriage presents one side of the sexual life of the capitalist or bourgeois world; prostitution presents the other. Marriage is the obverse, prostitution the reverse of the med...

8. Chapter 8

The social dependence of a rank or a class ever finds its expression in the laws and political institutions of a country. Laws are the mirror in which is reflected a country's s...

14. Chapter 14

It has become quite fashionable with people who occupy themselves with the social question to consider the question of population as the most important and burning of all. They...

10. Chapter 10

We see that we here have to do with owners of latifundia of first rank; and a portion of these gentlemen own also large estates in Southern Germany and Austria.

15. Chapter 15

Our arguments have shown that, with Socialism, the issue is not an arbitrary tearing down and raising up, but a natural process of development. All the factors active in the pro...

12. Chapter 12

The woman of future society is socially and economically independent; she is no longer subject to even a vestige of dominion and exploitation; she is free, the peer of man, mist...

1. Chapter 1

We live in the age of a great social Revolution, that every day makes further progress. A growingly powerful intellectual stir and unrest is noticeable in all the layers of soci...

13. Chapter 13

In the very nature of things, an existence worthy of human beings can never be the exclusive possession of a single privileged people. Isolated from all others, no nation could...