Clara Zetkin, born on this day in 1857, was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and feminist, active in the revolutionary Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
Clara Zetkin was born in Wiederau, a peasant village in Saxony, now part of the municipality Königshain-Wiederau. Because of the ban placed on socialist activity in Germany by Bismarck in 1878, Zetkin left for Zurich in 1882 then went into exile in Paris, where she studied to be a journalist and a translator.
Zetkin was very interested in women's politics, including the fight for equal opportunities and women's suffrage, though always through a socialist paradigm. She helped to develop the social-democratic women's movement in Germany; from 1891 to 1917 she edited the Social Democratic Party (SPD) women's newspaper Die Gleichheit (Equality). She also contributed to International Women's Day (IWD).
Around 1898, Zetkin formed a friendship with the younger Rosa Luxemburg that lasted 20 years. Despite Luxemburg's indifference to the women's movement, they became staunch political allies on the far left of the SPD. Luxemburg once suggested that their joint epitaph would be "Here lie the last two men of German Social Democracy."
In August 1932, despite having recently fallen gravely ill in Moscow, she returned to Berlin to preside over the opening of the newly elected Reichstag. There, she gave a speech urging Germany to reject fascism, stating "all those who feel themselves threatened, all those who suffer and all those who long for liberation must belong to the United Front against fascism and its representatives in government".
When Hitler seized power the following year, Zetkin once again fled Germany, dying in Moscow in 1933 at the age of 76.
"The working women, who aspire to social equality, expect nothing for their emancipation from the bourgeois women's movement, which allegedly fights for the rights of women. That edifice is built on sand and has no real basis. Working women are absolutely convinced that the question of the emancipation of women is not an isolated question which exists in itself, but part of the great social question."
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Just 15 years ago, if you asked a forum whether they should be merged with a closely related one, they would paint all these doomsday scenarios about how it would ruin everything. And now those forums are all dead and they are all together on twitter, and you know what? They were totally right, this shit sucks.
Holy shit I think the smoke from all the fireworks finally cleared. Good morning and death to America!
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Listening to Well There's Your Problem for the first time and in the 9/11 episode when Justin finds out on air that Ruth Bader Ginsberg has died and does this insane cackle is one of the funniest podcasting moments of all time.
"Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success" and led to many workers moving to shorter hours, researchers have said. The trials, in which workers were paid the same amount for shorter hours, took place between 2015 and 2019. Productivity remained the same or improved in the majority of workplaces, researchers said."
shit like this makes me want to slam my face into a desk. because this is good, really good, and so fucking obviously works, but we can't have it because it's TOO good for the plebs to be allowed
what if i said “if you think cheetah print is sexy, you’re fetishizing bestiality” and logged off for three days
In the UK our big firework day has it's history in anti-catholic bigotry. So quite easily. :shrug-outta-hecks:
Those extremely forced furious 9 memes on reddit are so obviously guerilla marketing disguised as user generated content. They're everywhere right now. I bet both my balls that it's paid for. Ugh.
epic how the UK went from actually having minimal lockdown shit in place to full on US style 'just go ham, the virus ain't not biggie'. delta plus is absolutely not going to be an issue guys! we need to open back up!
I went to the supermarket last night and walked past a few pubs and restaurants, all packed, ofc nobody wearing masks because you can't in that situation, nobody seemingly giving a shit about the huge upswing in covid cases. what's the plan here for when we inevitably get vaccine immune variants of covid? oh right, it'll be let people die en mass like before
the vaccine is great and you should get it, but it's not the panacea to covid. millions get the flu shot every year, and we see what happens there all the time
Local news going so hard on the crime wave and 'nobody wants to work' shit lately
My professor: "According to the textbook, capitalism is a system where profits from free enterprise are re-invested into capital ventures to create greater profits. Now, I also have a quote defining capitalism as the system by which the bourgeoisie feed workers' blood to a vampire who then sucks even more blood. I encourage you all to think about how this could further our understanding of capitalism."
Going to the local thai place with my gf to get some pad see ew and green tea, then we're going for a nice walk along the lakefront. Chill vibes only.
