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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.

— Milly Witkop What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)

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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.

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As long as the woman is not experiencing a renaissance, cannot be dreamed of a renaissance of humanity.

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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.

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