International Women's Day Preparation, Part 4, Lenin
03 Lenin, 1917, Russia.jpg If we do not draw women into public activity, into the militia, into political life; if we do not tear women away from the deadening atmosphere of household and kitchen; then it is impossible to secure real freedom, it is impossible even to build democracy, let alone socialism. Lenin, Third Letter from Afar, <http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/lfafar/third.htm#v23pp64h- 320> Zurich, March 1917 "Let the liars and hypocrites, the dull-witted and blind, the bourgeois and their supporters hoodwink the people with talk about freedom in general, about equality in general, about democracy in general. "We say to the workers and peasants: Tear the masks from the faces of these liars, open the eyes of these blind ones. Ask them: "Equality between what sex and what other sex? "Between what nation and what other nation? "Between what class and what other class? "Freedom from what yoke, or from the yoke of what class? Freedom for what class? "Down with the liars who are talking of freedom and equality for all, while there is an oppressed sex, while there are oppressor classes, while there is private ownership of capital, of shares, while there are the well-fed with their surplus of bread who keep the hungry in bondage. Not freedom for all, not equality for all, but a fight against the oppressors and exploiters, the abolition of every possibility of oppression and exploitation-that is our slogan! "Freedom and equality for the oppressed sex! "Freedom and equality for the workers, for the toiling peasants! "A fight against the oppressors, a fight against the capitalists, a fight against the profiteering kulaks! "That is our fighting slogan, that is our proletarian truth, the truth of the struggle against capital, the truth which we flung in the face of the world of capital with its honeyed, hypocritical, pompous phrases about freedom and equality in general, about freedom and equality for all." Lenin, Soviet Power and the Status of Women, November 1919 <https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/06.htm> The proletariat cannot achieve complete freedom, unless it achieves complete freedom for women. Lenin, To the Working Women, February 1920 <https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/feb/21.htm> -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
