Clara Zetkin
Communist activist, and advocate for women's rights (1857-1933) · Germany · Activists · Died at 75
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Something wrong?She pushed International Women's Day into existence and spent decades threading Marxist theory through the fight for women's rights - then watched the Weimar Republic collapse from her seat in the Reichstag.
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, Where there’s a will there’s a way.
[About Rosa Luxemburg] Rarely was heard on her lips the phrase, “I cannot”; more frequently were heard the words, “I must.
[About Rosa Luxemburg] With a will, determination, selflessness and devotion for which words are too weak, she consecrated her whole life and her whole being to Socialism.
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Born Clara Eißner in 1857, she built her early political life inside the Social Democratic Party of Germany, where she developed her ideas on women's rights within a Marxist framework. The rupture came in 1917: she broke with the Social Democrats, joined the Independent Social Democratic Party, and moved further left into the Spartacist League, which reorganized as the Communist Party of Germany. From 1920 to 1933 she held a seat in the Reichstag as a KPD representative, carrying her convictions through the entire span of the Weimar Republic. She died in June 1933, months after the republic fell.
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