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The liberation of the workers can only be the work of the working class itself, it can never accomplish this gigantic and terrible work of history, h… - Clara Zetkin
" "The liberation of the workers can only be the work of the working class itself, it can never accomplish this gigantic and terrible work of history, however, if it is torn in two halves by the sex distinction. As the men and women of the proletariat are united body and soul in their crushing life of misery, so must they also unite a burning hatred of capitalism with a more confident, more daring will to fight for the Revolution.
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Clara Zetkin (5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights. Originally a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) until World War I, she later joined the Independent Social Democratic Party (USDP), the Spartacus League, and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). She represented the Communist Party of Germany in the Reichstag between 1920 and 1933, when the rise of the Nazi Party forced her into exile in the Soviet Union.
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Clara Eißner
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Clara Josephine Eißner
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