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The Woman Question
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96 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1980
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Karl Marx
3,253 books6,550 followersWith the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote
The Communist Manifesto
(1848) and
Das Kapital
(1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.
German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.
Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.
Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.
Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.
Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .
People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.
Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).
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German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.
Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.
Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.
Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.
Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .
People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.
Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bi...
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...
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June 26, 2024
This book is exemplary and it stitches together some of the best works on this whole question. This book answers "The Woman Question" unlike any other. Find me a book or collection of excerpts that, as gracefully as this one, lays out the need to abolish the family as it exists and marriage as it exists - the social unit of a bourgeois society, and "hetaerism for the man, adultery for the woman" respectively - and also an understanding of women's liberation, sexual liberation, that does not hinge upon, as Lenin puts in his letter to Inessa Armand, "freedom from serious problems in marriage, from childbirth, and from the possibility of adultery," bourgeois demands which Clara Zetkin would compare to "navel-gazing."
The book is a careful compilation of many excerpts of Engels' Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, especially the ones that give a historical materialist analysis of where monogamy and sex-love come from, but also speeches by Stalin and Lenin on the role of women in production, in revolution, and in socialist construction, and even letters written by women leaders of communist parties like Armand and Zetkin in which they debated which demands come from bourgeois women and which ones come from proletarian women.
I appreciated that the authors all find that the kernels of the future - marriage based upon individual sex-love, dissoluble - formed as a germ within the restrictive feudal monogamy, and that it is in fact at least partially practiced by proletarian men, women and others today, since no worker is passing on or inheriting anything worth mentioning. Under socialism and in a society where women are embraced within social production to the fullest, marriage and family can fully become what they are turning into: bonds held together by promise and by love, instead of economic necessity. It is a pretty profound revelation and a realization of our assertion that the working class benefits not at all from oppression - not of women, nor of anyone else - and in fact can lead society towards the emancipation of all.
The book is a careful compilation of many excerpts of Engels' Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, especially the ones that give a historical materialist analysis of where monogamy and sex-love come from, but also speeches by Stalin and Lenin on the role of women in production, in revolution, and in socialist construction, and even letters written by women leaders of communist parties like Armand and Zetkin in which they debated which demands come from bourgeois women and which ones come from proletarian women.
I appreciated that the authors all find that the kernels of the future - marriage based upon individual sex-love, dissoluble - formed as a germ within the restrictive feudal monogamy, and that it is in fact at least partially practiced by proletarian men, women and others today, since no worker is passing on or inheriting anything worth mentioning. Under socialism and in a society where women are embraced within social production to the fullest, marriage and family can fully become what they are turning into: bonds held together by promise and by love, instead of economic necessity. It is a pretty profound revelation and a realization of our assertion that the working class benefits not at all from oppression - not of women, nor of anyone else - and in fact can lead society towards the emancipation of all.
March 14, 2023
The 4 big names in Socialism discuss the position of women through history and posit their spot in the world of Communism. Lenin and Stalin are redundant in their incessant patting themselves on the back over the accomplishments of the Bolshevik revolution, but the quartet show that they were ahead of their time while addressing such issues as divorce, prostitution, reproductive rights, women in politics, etc.
August 25, 2025
Nice spread of Marxist thought on the woman question. Definitely offered a good sense of what was being said around those times. Not entirely relevant to current circumstances in today’s age but interesting and informative nonetheless
July 20, 2022
No solo hablan de las mujeres
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September 16, 2024crazy how much talk there is abt het marriages being whats natural when monogamy and the nuclear family were explicitly created to fit economic conditions
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