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.
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"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
now, I don't want to come of as some le nordic model wanker. you gotta remember this is still capitalism, in a state that is a part of the imperial core, and is only allowed to do these policies because of the privileged position they are in getting fat off of the fruits of imperialism for 500 years. but, fuck I still want it, and it goes to show that you do not actually need to work yourself to death for society to function
and you have infinitely many knock on effects for how good this would be. less people commuting means less polution, less mental health stress which is already an epidemic, leading to lowered secondary things like suicides and drug use and so on. there are just so many ways this makes society better, and has no down sides. but we're all just gonna sit here and have to work 40 hours still. it's enough to make you go full joker
you are correct, but Iceland has only been enjoying the fruits of imperialism for about 80 years. We were a backwater until the Blessed War came to our shores with infrastructure and jobs for all working for our friendly occupiers. This was continued with the Marshall-plan. Until then we were arguably a colonial holding of Denmark, but without the resources (except for fish).
The only thing good about Iceland is the strong unions. They were instrumental in this experiment of lessening the hours worked.
no, Iceland has still been better off simply because it's a colony of Denmark for hundreds of years. there was no enslavement of Icelandic people, no systemic resource extraction like there has been with Africa or Asia, no sweat shops built for cheap Icelandic labour. poor =/= not within the imperial sphere. Northern Ireland is extremely poor, that's still within the imperial core, even while being a colonised British holding right now. Iceland has always been treated differently because it is white, regardless of how much of a backwater it's been for centuries
true true, that's why I said arguably, there were similarities but the colonized people of Africa and other places had to deal with their culture and language being stolen from them. We also did our own exploitation, we had a kind of serfdom until the 19th century.