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, by RIDDELL John
An internationally respected revolutionary leader since the 1880s and a close collaborator of Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) became part of the newly formed Communist International (Comintern) in 1919 . In 1921, she joined with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Leon Trotsky in helping to win (…)
, by RIDDELL John, TABER Mike
The following article is the introduction to a newly published collection Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by the German Marxist Clara Zetkin (Haymarket Books, 2017), 131 pp. The text is reprinted with permission from International Socialist Review.
Clara Zetkin
Seldom has (…)
, by RIDDELL John
In a recent comment to this blog, Tad Tietze defines Clara Zetkin’s approach to women’s oppression as marked by “consistent method, flexible application.” To portray this approach, he offers us an important speech by Zetkin to a convention of German socialists in 1896 . In my view, Zetkin’s (…)
, by TIETZE Tad
The following is a comment on my post, “Reading Zetkin in Context.” .
John Riddell
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John, I am unconvinced by your positions on both Zetkin’s views and the issue of “context.” On Zetkin’s views, it seems to me that while she shifted some of her specific views over time, (…)
, par RIDDELL John
Thanks to Lindsey German for her constructive comment, Clara Zetkin : oppression, class, and socialism. She has provided useful documentation of Zetkin’s views on socialism and feminism from the years before World War .
Reading these quotations, it seems to me that some of Zetkin’s opinions (…)
, par GERMAN Lindsey
Among the responses to my article, “Clara Zetkin in the lion’s den – Workers’ unity and feminism at the 1921 Comintern congress,” the following comment by Lindsey German is of particular interest. Lindsey is a London-based activist and writer for socialism and women’s liberation. She is a (…)
, by RIDDELL John
In 1921, when the Communist International (Comintern) held its Third World Congress, Clara Zetkin was the most widely respected Communist outside Russia. Yet she was the victim of vigorous efforts on the eve of the congress to vilify her and drive her out of the Comintern leadership, if not from (…)
, by RIDDELL John
Genossinnen und Genossen! That is how Clara Zetkin began her speeches. It is German for “women comrades and men comrades.” Few socialists used that salutation in her time, and there were few women at their meetings. But that was beginning to change, and Zetkin was part of those changes.
Clara (…)
, by ZETKIN Clara
The following report was given June 20, 1923, to the Third Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. It is reprinted from Mike Taber and John Riddell, eds., Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win (Haymarket Books, 2017).
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Fascism confronts the (…)
, par ZETKIN Clara
Speech at the Party Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Gotha, October 16th, 1896. Berlin.
The investigations of Bachofen, Morgan and others seem to prove that the social suppression of women coincided with the creation of private property. The contrast within the family (…)
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