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German Marxist and Revolutionary
About Clara Zetkin
In 1910, at the Second International Socialist Women’s Conference in Copenhagen, she proposed and secured unanimous adoption of International Women’s Day, not as a symbolic gesture, but as an annual day of militant demonstration for universal suffrage, labor protections, and proletarian unity across borders. She edited Die Gleichheit for over two decades, transforming it from a theoretical journal into a practical tool for working-class women, printing seamstresses’ wage tables alongside Marxist analysis, publishing factory inspection reports alongside calls for strike action. Her 1907 speech at the Stuttgart Congress directly challenged male comrades who dismissed ‘the woman question’ as secondary, arguing that socialist revolution could not succeed without dismantling both capitalist exploitation and patriarchal control within the family, workplace, and party itself. She refused to separate gender struggle from class struggle, not as an abstraction, but through concrete organizing: founding the Social Democratic Party’s women’s office, training female agitators in textile towns, and smuggling banned pamphlets into Prussian factories under surveillance.
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