Main index

Proletarian Feminism

The proletariat cannot achieve complete liberty until it has won complete liberty for women.
V.I. Lenin

Women carry half of heaven on their shoulders and they must conquer it.
Chairman Mao Tse-tung

Selections from the classics

Lenin:

Two Letters to Inessa Armand

The Tasks of the Working Women's Movement in the Soviet Republic

Soviet Power and the Status of Women

To the Working Women

International Working Woman's Day (1920)

International Working Woman's Day (1921)

From Quotations of Chairman Mao Tse-tung: On Women

Early article by Mao Tse-tung: On Miss Chao's Suicide (1919)

Clara Zetkin - My Recollections of Lenin

Communist Party of Peru - Marxism, Mariategui and the Feminist Movement

José Carlos Mariátegui - Feminist Demands

Other important documents

The Material Basis for Women's Liberation: Against the Current Trend in the Women's Movement - Sulabha Brahme, Rajani Desai, Sharayu Mhatre-Purohit

The Heritage We Must Enrich: The Dialectical Materialist Approach to the Question of the Exploitation of Women - Rajani X. Desai

Women's Liberation in China - Claudie Broyelle

[Note: C. Broyelle is not a Marxist, but we include her work here because of the important observations she made about women in China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.]