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August Bebel, Women under Socialism (1879)

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Thus we see how men of different viewpoints arrive at identical conclusions on the basis of their scientific investigations. The complete emancipation of woman, and her equality with man is one of the final goals of our social development, whose realization no power on earth can prevent; yet this realization is possible only by a social change that will abolish the rule of man over man – hence also of capitalists over workers. Only then will the human race reach its highest development. The “Golden Age” that has been dreamt of for thousands of years, and for which man has been longing, will come at last. Class rule will have reached its end for all time, and, along with it, the rule of man over woman.



Source of English translation: August Bebel, “Woman in the Future,” in Women Under Socialism, introduction by Lewis A. Coser, translated by Daniel de Leon, from the 33rd German edition. New York: Schocken, 1975, pp. 343-49. Original translation edited by GHI staff.

Source of original German text: August Bebel, “Die Frau in der Zukunft,” in Die Frau und der Sozialismus, 1st ed. (February 1879). Berlin [GDR]: J.H.W. Dietz Verlag Nachf., 1979, pp. 381-86.

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