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Clara Zetkin Internet Archive Page 1 of 4 Marxist Writers: Clara Zetkin Clara Zetkin 1857-1933 Biography Writings: Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious, October 1896 The Workers’ International Festival, May 1899 May Greetings from Stuttgart , May 1900 Social-Democracy & Woman Suffrage, 1906 For Adult Suffrage, May 1909 German Socialist Women’s Movement, October 1909 A Greeting from Abroad, May 1913 August Bebel Obituary, August 1913 German Women to Their Sisters in Great Britain, December 1913 The Duty of Working Women in War-Time, November 1914 The Women of Germany to the Women of Great Britain, January 1915 Rosa Luxemburg (intro to the Junius Pamphlet), May 1919 Karl Liebknecht, September 1919 Rosa Luxemburg, September 1919 http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/index.htm 14-7-2011 Clara Zetkin Internet Archive Page 2 of 4 Hail to the Third Socialist International!, 1919 In Defence of Rosa Luxemburg, 1919 Through Dictatorship to Democracy, 1919 The Situation in Germany, 1920 Fraternal Greetings to the Communist Unity Convention, 1920 The Struggle Against New Imperialistic Wars, 1922 Organising Working Women, 1922 The Russian Revolution & the Fourth Congress of the Comintern, 1922 From the International of Word to the International of Deed World Wide Field of Activity of the Comintern To the Congress of the German Communist Party Fascism, August 1923 Reminiscences of Lenin, 1924 (in preparation) Lenin on the Women’s Question A May-Day Message from Germany From My Memorandum Book (An Interview with Lenin on the Woman Question) Links: The Clara Zetkin Collections at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam Museum -Clara-Zetkin im Zetkin-Haus, Birkenwerder Archiv Clara Zetkin, German-language archive in MIA. Women and Marxism | The Socialist International | Marxist Writers Last updated on 29.12.2008 http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/index.htm 14-7-2011 Clara Zetkin Internet Archive Page 3 of 4 Shortcut Text Internet Address Biography http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/z/e.htm#zetkin-clara Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1896/10/women.htm Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious The Workers’ International http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1899/05/festival.htm Festival May Greetings from Stuttgart http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1900/05/stuttgart.htm Social- Democracy & http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1906/xx/womansuffrage.htm Woman Suffrage For Adult Suffrage http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1909/05/suffrage.htm German Socialist http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1909/10/09.htm Women’s Movement A Greeting from Abroad http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1913/05/labourwoman.htm August Bebel Obituary http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1913/08/bebel.htm German Women to http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1913/12/sisters.htm Their Sisters in Great Britain The Duty of Working Women in http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1914/11/19.htm War-Time The Women of Germany to the Women of http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1915/01/reply.htm Great Britain Rosa Luxemburg http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1919/05/junius.htm Karl http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1919/09/karl.htm Liebknecht Rosa http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1919/09/rosa.htm Luxemburg Hail to the Third Socialist http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1919/xx/hail.htm International! In Defence of Rosa http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1919/xx/defencerosa.htm Luxemburg Through Dictatorship to http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1919/xx/dictdem.htm Democracy The Situation in Germany http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1920/xx/germany.htm Fraternal Greetings to the Communist http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/subject/unity_convention/zetkin.htm Unity Convention The Struggle http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/index.htm 14-7-2011 Clara Zetkin Internet Archive Page 4 of 4 Shortcut Text Internet Address Against New Imperialistic http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/periodicals/communist_review/1922/03/imp_wars.htm Wars Organising Working http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1922/ci/women.htm Women The Russian Revolution & the Fourth http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1922/ci/fourth_congress.htm Congress of the Comintern From the International of Word to the http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/xx/xx/international.htm International of Deed World Wide Field of http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/xx/xx/activity.htm Activity of the Comintern To the Congress of the German http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/xx/xx/congress.htm Communist Party Fascism http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1923/08/fascism.htm Lenin on the Women’s http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1920/lenin/zetkin1.htm Question A May-Day Message from http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1920/04/29.htm Germany From My Memorandum http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1925/lenin/zetkin2.htm Book International Institute of http://www.iisg.nl/archives/ Social History Museum- Clara-Zetkin http://www.brandenburg.de/land/mwfk/kultur/gedenk/zetkin.html im Zetkin- Haus Archiv Clara Zetkin http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/zetkin/index.htm Women and Marxism http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/index.htm The Socialist http://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/index.htm International Marxist http://www.marxists.org/archive/index.htm Writers http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/index.htm 14-7-2011 Glossary of People: Ze MIA: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Glossary of People Ze Zetkin, Clara (1857-1933) A prominent figure in the German and international workers' movement, most notably in the struggles womens workers' movement. From 1895, a National Executive member of the German SPD, and on its left- wing; member of the Bookbinders Union in Stuttgart, and active in the Tailors and Seamstresses Union, becoming its provisional International Secretary in 1896, despite the fact that it was illegal for women to be members of trade unions in Germany at that time. As Secretary of the International Bureau of Socialist Women, Zetkin organised the Socialist Women's Conference in March 1915. Along with Alexandre Kollontai, Zetkin fought for unrestricted suffrage, and against the 'bourgeois feminist' position supporting the restriction of the vote by property or income. Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg led the left-wing and waged a fierce struggle against revisionism as well as the center represented by Kautsky. During the War joined http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/z/e.htm (1 of 3) [14-7-2011 20:52:43] Glossary of People: Ze the Spartacists along with Luxemburg and Liebknecht. A founding member of the German Communist Party in 1918 along with comrades including Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Became a delegate to the Reichstag from 1920; secretary of the International Women's Secretariat and member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International from 1921, but lived in Russia from 1924 until her death in 1933. See the Clara Zetkin Archive. Zetkin, Konstantin (Costia) (b. 1885) Youngest son of Clara Zetkin. As a young adult became an admirer and lover of Rosa Luxemburg. Worked on his mother's publication Die Gleichheit(Equality) Zetkin, Maxim (b. 1883) Oldest son of Clara Zetkin. Became a physician in Germany. Zeno of Citium (c. 336-264 BCE) Born in Cyprus. Founder of the Stoic School. Few of his http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/z/e.htm (2 of 3) [14-7-2011 20:52:43] Glossary of People: Ze writings survive. Zeno of Elea (490-430 BCE) Representative of the Eleatic School of Greek philosophy, famous for his paradoxes. By showing that concept of motion was inherently self-contradictory, and he drew the conclusion that motion was only "seeming". He also "proved" that plurality was impossible and that a faster thing can never overtake a slower thing. Hegel shows that Zeno is right in proving that the concepts are self- contradictory, but wrong in drawing the conclusion that these things cannot be objectively true as a result, but rather that Nature is self-contradictory; that motion exists, and motion is self-contradictory. See Hegel on Zeno. Index of the Letter Z | Encyclopedia of Marxism http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/z/e.htm (3 of 3) [14-7-2011 20:52:43] Clara Zetkin: Proletarian Woman and Socialism (1896) MIA > Archive > Zetkin Clara Zetkin Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious (1896) Source: Speech at the Party Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Gotha, October 16th, 1896. Berlin. Published: Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings, ed. by Philip Foner, trans. by Kai Schoenhals, International Publishers, 1984. Transcribed: for marxists.org in August, 2002. 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 between the husband as proprietor and the wife as non-proprietor became the basis for the economic dependence and the social illegality of the female sex. This social illegality represents, according to Engels, one of the first and oldest forms of class rule. He states: “Within the family, the husband constitutes the bourgeoisie and the wife http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1896/10/women.htm (1 of 19) [14-7-2011 20:52:52] Clara Zetkin: Proletarian Woman and Socialism (1896) the proletariat.” Nonetheless, a women’s question in the modern sense of the word did not exist. It was only the capitalist mode of production which created the societal transformation that brought forth the modern women’s question by destroying the old family economic system which provided both livelihood and life’s meaning for the great mass of women during the pre- capitalistic period. We must, however, not transfer to the ancient economic activities of women those concepts (the concepts of futility and pettiness), that we connect with the activities of women in our times.