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