In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women's wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour.
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For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.Clara Zetkin
We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
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Cheap women's labour eliminates the work of men and if the men want to continue to earn their daily bread, they must put up with low wages.
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