Under capitalism, the inequality of women stems from exploitation of the working class by the capitalist class. But the exploitation of women cuts across class lines and affects all women. Marxism-Leninism views the woman question as a special question which derives from the economic dependence of women upon men. This economic dependence as Engels wrote over 100 years ago, carries with it the sexual exploitation of women, the placing of woman in the modern bourgeois family, as the “proletariat” of the man, who assumes the role of “bourgeoisie.”
Hence, Marxist-Leninists fight to free woman of household drudgery, they fight to win equality for women in all spheres; they recognize that one cannot adequately deal with the woman question or win women for progressive participation unless one takes up the special problems, needs and aspirations of women – as women.
—Claudia Jones, "We Seek Full Equality for Women".
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“Under capitalism, the inequality of women stems from exploitation of the working class by the capitalist class. But the exploitation of women cuts across class lines and affects all women. Marxism-Leninism views the woman question as a special question which derives from the economic dependence of women upon men. This economic dependence as Engels wrote over 100 years ago, carries with it the sexual exploitation of women, the placing of woman in the modern bourgeois family, as the ‘proletariat’ of the man, who assumes the role of ‘bourgeoisie.’ ”
— Claudia Jones
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Claudia Jones, February 21, 1915 / 2024
(image: Claudia Jones, secretary of the Women’s Commission of the Communist Party USA in New York City, January 22, 1948. Anthony Camerano/Associated Press)
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Ncuti Gatwa is featured in a mural in Margate, London, full of Black British Icons.
The icons from left to right: Ncuti Gatwa, Claudia Jones, Little Simz, Queen Charlotte, Sir Steve McQueen, Munroe Bergdorf, Sir David Adjaye OBE, Olaudah Equiano, Lady Phyll, Mary Secole, and Raheem Sterling.
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ben daniels is BACK 🗣️ on my SCREEN 🗣️
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a call-out post
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“These artificial divisions and antagonisms between British and colonial workers, already costly in toll of generations of colonial wars and ever-recurrent crises, have delayed fundamental social change in Britain, and form the very basis of colour prejudice. The small top section of the working class, bribed and corrupted, and benefiting from this colonial robbery, have been imbued with this racist ‘white superiority’ poison.”
— Claudia Jones
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Benjamin Weber, American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration, The New Press, New York, NY, 2023 [University of California – Davis, Davis, CA]
«Imperialism is the root cause of racism. It is the ideology which upholds colonial rule and exploitation. It is the ideology which breeds fascism.» – Claudia Jones, «West Indian Gazette» (1958), quoted in Carole Boyce Davies, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008), p. 87
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every time i think about how messed up the vampire bonds/families are i go a little insane. louis and claudia are siblings because lestats their father but lestats also louis husband so claudia’s louis child too but then gabrielle’s lestat’s actual mother and also his daughter so that means louis is gabrielle’s son in law and also her brother and all the children are psychically linked so when lestat’s railing his husband/son louis, his sister/daughter and mother/daughter can hear it all if louis doesnt put up a block which he sometimes canonically doesnt per ep 6. riveting television is back!
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