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“For Black women today and for all their working-class sisters, the notion that the burden of housework and child care can be shifted from their shoulders to the society contains one of the radical secrets of womens liberation. Child care should be socialized, meal preparation should be socialized, housework should be industrialized—and all these services should be readily accessible to working-class people.”
— Jun 04, 2022 07:17AM
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Lydia
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“As the violent face of sexism, the threat of r*pe will continue to exist as long as the overall oppression of women remains an essential crutch for capitalism.”
— May 29, 2022 06:33PM
Lydia
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“White women were learning that as mothers, they bore a very special responsibility in the struggle to safeguard white supremacy.”
— May 15, 2022 09:57AM
Lydia
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On the Civil War: “The Northern capitalists sought economic control over the entire nation. Their struggle against the Southern slaveocracy did not therefore mean that they supported the liberation of Black men or women as human beings.”
— Feb 21, 2022 06:26PM
Lydia
is on page 104 of 271
“It could not have been a mere historical coincidence that so many of the white women who defended their Black sisters in the most dangerous of situations were involved in the struggle for education. They must have understood how urgently Black women needed to acquire knowledge—a lamp unto their people’s feet and a light unto the path toward freedom.”
— Feb 07, 2021 10:56AM
Lydia
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“Even the most radical white abolitionists... failed to understand that the rapidly developing capitalism of the North was also an oppressive system. They viewed slavery as a detestable and inhuman institution... But they did not recognize that the white worker in the North... was no different from the enslaved ‘worker’ in the South: both were victims of economic exploitation.”
— Feb 07, 2021 07:35AM
