Monday, December 30, 2013

the chief thing

'The chief thing is to get women to take part in socially productive labor, to liberate them from "domestic slavery", to free them from their stupefying and humiliating subjugation to the eternal drudgery of the kitchen and the nursery. This struggle will be a long one, and it demands a radical reconstruction, both of social technique and of morale. But it will end on the complete triumph of communism."
V.I. Lenin
International Working Women's Day Speech, 1920
quote found in Queen of the Home, compiled and edited by Jennifer McBride

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