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Utopias are invented to be realized, and as long as there is no demand for an improvement of living conditions, changing things is impossible.
We should support woman both mentally and morally, pointing her the way to freedom, which she must naturally find for herself.
What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)
As long as the woman is not experiencing a renaissance, cannot be dreamed of a renaissance of humanity.
What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)
The State was never and never can be anything other than the political apparatus of force of the propertied classes to ensure the economic exploitation of the broad masses of the working people.
By no means you should work too hard, and thereby ruin your health. Your health is more important than any book in the world.
Letters to Berkman and Emmy Eckstein (1935)
We have to take things as they come, since we are not the masters over our own fate.
Letters to Berkman and Emmy Eckstein (1935)
The best people in this rotten world have to suffer most, suffer constantly
Letters to Berkman and Emmy Eckstein (1935)
The syndicalists are principled opponents of every Church, in which they only see an institution for the mental domination and damnation of the working people, cultivating willing objects of exploitation for the bosses and loyal subjects for the State.
What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)
The claim that women cannot be won over to a great movement like socialism is just as groundless as the assertion that the proletariat generally has no sympathy for socialism.
What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)
The woman should not only be married to the man, but fight beside him as a comrade [auch Mitkämpferin und Gesinnungsgenossin werden], since she is subject to exactly the same undignified living conditions as he.
What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)
Let us show them that we did not willingly bear the yoke that was imposed on us, and that we rebelled against the violence done to us so that the gates of freedom may be opened for them.
What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)
The strike is proving more and more to be an insufficient means which must be supplemented by other means in order to continue to be the workers’ most effective weapon
What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)
The organization of women on the basis of anarcho-syndicalism is as necessary as the organization of male workers on the same basis. That’s why we have to support each other and go hand in hand in our work.
What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)
That a woman whose life is only moving from one pregnancy to the next, is lost for any mental development, is all too understandable. And unfortunately there are millions of proletarian women in this terrible situation.
What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)
We must bring women into the union, and not only as producers; it is also the power of women as consumers that needs to be activated, and this can only be done by joining forces in the organization. This is the most important and noble task of the Syndicalist Women’s Association.
What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)
The revolutions in Russia and Central Europe, the inevitable results of the great genocide, also brought so-called suffrage women, which had long been the ideal of the bourgeois and social-democratic women’s movements.
What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)