German Socialist Women’s Movement "The philosophers hitherto have only interpreted the world in different ways; what has yet to be done is to change the world."
For Adult Suffrage "Adult Suffrage could be realised in England, if – what a pity there is an “if” still! – if all the Socialist and trade unionist forces would unite their efforts and their action about this reform."
From The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart "The more modest our demands the more modest will the government be in its concessions...."
Social-Democracy & Woman Suffrage "The proletariat, in its entirety, without distinction of sex, shall be able to call out to the capitalist order of society: “You rest on us, you oppress us, and, see, now the building which you have erected is tottering to the ground.”"
The Workers’ International Festival "The slaves of our days have numbered themselves and they will no longer be slaves. By the May demonstration they show that they have recognised clearly their own true interests, that are in irreconcilable antagonism with the capitalist interests."
Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious "The incorporation of the great masses of proletarian women in the liberation struggle of the proletariat is one of the prerequisites for the victory of the Socialist idea and for the construction of a Socialist society."
[Classics] The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State The family, private property, and the state – the basic institutions of capitalist society – are neither 'natural' nor everlasting. They are the product of specific economic and social conditions. Friedrich Engels traces the evolution of these institutions from the dawn of class society until capitalism. He shows how the oppression of women as a sex begins with the development of private property, and how the development of the modern working class creates the material basis to end that oppression.
