Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism

Abstract

The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women's movement which was undoubtedly the most important one of the kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the Memory Hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find. Nowadays, references to Marx and Marxism show up rather frequently in women's liberation literature as a fashionable ingredient. This literature, however, seldom makes contact with Marx and Engels' real views on the issues involved, and takes even less notice of the fact that they helped to put these views into practice. By the 1890s, Engels together with a close disciple August Bebel helped to inspire and encourage a socialist women's movement that was militantly Marxist in leadership and policy.