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. Clara Zetkin More Quotes by Clara Zetkin More Quotes From Clara Zetkin It is out of the question that the task of socialist women's activity should be to alienate proletarian women from duties as wives and mothers; on the contrary, it must operate so this task is fulfilled better than before, precisely in the interests of the proletariat. Clara Zetkin question better activity women When we demand Woman Suffrage, we can only do so on the ground, not that it should be a right attached to the possession of a certain amount of property, but that it should be inherent in the woman herself. Clara Zetkin ground woman only property We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class. Clara Zetkin principle making demand class All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society. Clara Zetkin equality women society life These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries. Clara Zetkin same workers society class In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as fully established that sometimes between the socialist working women and those belonging to the middle class, there may be antagonisms. Clara Zetkin women struggle men world The bourgeois woman not only demands her own bread, but she also requests spiritual nourishment and wants to develop her individuality. Clara Zetkin woman own spiritual bread The guardianship of the weaker sex has survived in the family law which still states, 'And he shall be your master.' Clara Zetkin your family law sex
