"What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women."

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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."

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"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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"For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny."

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