We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.
We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.
When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.
The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.
