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When a woman’s wages are insufficient to keep her alive, the sale of favours seems a possible subsidiary occupation. The hypocritical morality of bourgeois society encourages prostitution by the structure of its exploitative economy, while at the same time mercilessly covering with contempt any girl or woman who is forced to take this path.
The black shadow of prostitution stalks the legal marriage of bourgeois society. History has never before witnessed such a growth of prostitution as occurred in the last part of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. In Berlin there is one prostitute for every twenty so-called honest women. In Paris the ratio is one to eighteen and in London one to nine. There are different types of prostitution: there is open prostitution that is legal and subject to regulation, and there is the secret, “seasonal” type, All forms of prostitution flourish like a poisonous flower in the swamps of the bourgeois way of life.
The world of the bourgeoisie does not even spare children, forcing young girls of nine and ten into the sordid embraces of wealthy and depraved old men. In the capitalist countries there are brothels which specialise exclusively in very young girls. In this present post-war period every woman faces the possibility of unemployment. Unemployment hits women in particular, and causes an enormous increase in the army of “street women”. Hungry crowds of women seeking out the buyers of “white slaves” flood the evening streets of Berlin. Paris and the other civilised centres of the capitalist states. The trade in women’s flesh is conducted quite openly, which is not surprising when you consider that the whole bourgeois way of life is based on buying and selling. There is an undeniable element of material and economic, considerations even the most legal of marriages. Prostitution is the way out for the woman who fails to find herself a permanent breadwinner. Prostitution, under capitalism provides men with the opportunity of having sexual relationships without having to take upon themselves the responsibility of caring materially for the women until the grave.
Alexandra Kollontai - Prostitution and Ways of Fighting It
The black shadow of prostitution stalks the legal marriage of bourgeois society. History has never before witnessed such a growth of prostitution as occurred in the last part of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. In Berlin there is one prostitute for every twenty so-called honest women. In Paris the ratio is one to eighteen and in London one to nine. There are different types of prostitution: there is open prostitution that is legal and subject to regulation, and there is the secret, “seasonal” type, All forms of prostitution flourish like a poisonous flower in the swamps of the bourgeois way of life.
The world of the bourgeoisie does not even spare children, forcing young girls of nine and ten into the sordid embraces of wealthy and depraved old men. In the capitalist countries there are brothels which specialise exclusively in very young girls. In this present post-war period every woman faces the possibility of unemployment. Unemployment hits women in particular, and causes an enormous increase in the army of “street women”. Hungry crowds of women seeking out the buyers of “white slaves” flood the evening streets of Berlin. Paris and the other civilised centres of the capitalist states. The trade in women’s flesh is conducted quite openly, which is not surprising when you consider that the whole bourgeois way of life is based on buying and selling. There is an undeniable element of material and economic, considerations even the most legal of marriages. Prostitution is the way out for the woman who fails to find herself a permanent breadwinner. Prostitution, under capitalism provides men with the opportunity of having sexual relationships without having to take upon themselves the responsibility of caring materially for the women until the grave.
Alexandra Kollontai - Prostitution and Ways of Fighting It
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Alexandra Kollontai – A Life Of Revolutionary Struggle
In this day in 1872 the great Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai was born. Kollontai was born into a bourgeois family but became a convinced Marxist quote early in life. She rigorously appli…
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One of the more banal norms of the modern day is the WhatsApp group. A convenient tool for friendship circles, hobbies or even workspaces, it allows people to speak en masse and share information i…
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People's Commissar of State Charity A.M. Kollontai among the homeless, 1918
~ Alexandra Kollontai
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“What pushed me onto the path of socialism-communism? Inequality and injustice outside my family in Tsarist Russia - that’s what outraged me from early childhood and youth and called me to fight for a better, more just world, for the disappearance of poverty, hunger, oppression and lack of rights for the working people...”
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Vengefulness is for the weak
After intense battles on the approaches to the French capital, after Russian artillerymen occupied the commanding heights, contrary to the will of Napoleon Bonaparte, the French Empire capitulated.
The capitulation of Paris was signed at 2am on March 31st in the village of Lavillette on the terms drawn up by the dashing Colonel Mikhail Orlov, who was left hostage at the French during the truce.
Thus ended a two-year war in which Napoleon’s empire could not withstand the confrontation with the Russian Empire.
At noon on March 31st cavalry squadrons led by Russian Emperor Alexander I triumphantly entered the capital of France.
Vengefulness is for the weak. True winners are characterised by generosity.
The correctness of these words was demonstrated by Russian officers in the spring of 1814. The Russian bayonet reached Paris, but did not ruin the great city.
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After intense battles on the approaches to the French capital, after Russian artillerymen occupied the commanding heights, contrary to the will of Napoleon Bonaparte, the French Empire capitulated.
The capitulation of Paris was signed at 2am on March 31st in the village of Lavillette on the terms drawn up by the dashing Colonel Mikhail Orlov, who was left hostage at the French during the truce.
Thus ended a two-year war in which Napoleon’s empire could not withstand the confrontation with the Russian Empire.
At noon on March 31st cavalry squadrons led by Russian Emperor Alexander I triumphantly entered the capital of France.
“All the streets along which the allies had to pass, and all the streets adjacent to them, were filled with people who occupied even the roofs of the houses”, recalled the hero of the day, Mikhail Orlov.
Vengefulness is for the weak. True winners are characterised by generosity.
The correctness of these words was demonstrated by Russian officers in the spring of 1814. The Russian bayonet reached Paris, but did not ruin the great city.
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Stalingrad Pravda, April 1, 1953
"On the new reduction of the state retail prices for food and industrial goods"
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The Soviet Union proposed this measure and doubled the standard of living to solve the problems it was facing at the time, such as the lack of wage control, insufficient economic efficiency, and a shortage of urban labour. Why did it work? And why did it worry the U.S. so much?
In 1956, the USSR implemented a wage increase that, within a decade, increased from 250 rubles per month to 500 and 600 for rural and urban workers respectively. It also reduced the working week from 48 hours to 41 over four years, with a view to further reducing it to 35 by 1968.
At first, the CIA was not concerned because it believed that reducing working hours would limit Soviet production and productivity, but by 1961, it was deeply concerned (remember, we are in the midst of the Cold War) that not only had these conditions not been affected, but they had actually improved in most cases.
With the reduction in working hours, hourly output increased by 10.5% in three years and by 10% in four. Employees performed better because they arrived more rested, given their more free time. Unemployment decreased, as more labour had to be hired to fill the vacant hours.
The reduction of the workday also enabled Soviet innovation. Since managers could no longer rely on long hours, they were forced to find advanced methods and develop new and improved technology to shorten working hours. This boosted both light and heavy industry.
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In Defense of Communism: The Five Biggest Anti-Communist Lies
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History, they say, is written by the victors, even the temporary ones. The dominance of counter-revolution and the overthrow of socia
History, they say, is written by the victors, even the temporary ones. The dominance of counter-revolution and the overthrow of socia
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