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"The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible."
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"If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place."
"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."
"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."
"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."
"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."
"It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result."
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"What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women."
"The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society."
"The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation."
"In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized."
"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."
"Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts."
"Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought."
"The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them."
"These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries."
"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."
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