• Speaker [e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    We consider the tendency of modern industry to make children and juvenile persons of both sexes co-operate in the great work of social production, as a progressive, sound and legitimate tendency, although under capital it is distorted into an abomination

    This seems to be more about child labor than gender. In particular, it reads a lot like it's saying that child labor is great when it's communist.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      The context of the quote was I believe in a passage about the gendered separation of labour...But yeah, it doesn't sound that way. Had a better quote but when I sourced it it was actually Engles writing to Marx.