Zetkin: In the Muslim Women's Club

Clara Zetkin komunista (2.a ezkerretik) Mosku sovietarrean

CLARA ZETKIN: In the Muslim Women's Club

“The revolution arrived like a mighty thunderstorm. It has smashed injustice and slavery. It has brought justice and freedom to the poor and oppressed.”

Marx, Engels, Lenin eta Trotsky
Pakistango protesta batean

One of the speakers burst out: "How was our life before the revolution? Our fathers sold us like young lambs when we were hardly ten or twelve years old-sometimes even younger. Our husbands demanded our affection and love, even when they seemed to us revolting. When our husbands were in the mood for it, they beat us with clubs or whips. We had to serve them day and night like slaves. When they grew tired of us, they told us to go to hell. They rented us out as mistresses to their friends. They starved us when it suited their fancy. They took away our dearest daughters who were the joy of our eyes and the aid for our weak arms. They sold them just as they had bought us. No mullah came to our aid when we were in need. Where could we have found a judge who would have given us legal aid?

"But now, my dear sisters, how everything has changed! The revolution arrived like a mighty thunderstorm. It has smashed injustice and slavery. It has brought justice and freedom to the poor and oppressed. Our father can no longer take us when we are young and force us upon the bed of a strange husband. We are able to select our husband and he must never again become our master; rather he shall be our friend and comrade. We want to work and to fight next to him and help to construct a new society. A new life must begin for everybody. The Soviets have written a new law. It states that we are human beings just like men are and that we are free and have the same rights as they do. We, too, can select the people, both men and women, that we would like to be sent to the Soviets. And we, ourselves, can work in them. When we have.grievances toward our husband, a neighbor or a boss, we take them to the People's Court. It will side with us if we are in the right. Nobody asks us what prophet we follow: Mohammet, Moses or Christ. The Soviets brought us salvation. Eternal gratitude to them!"

—Clara Zetkin, "In the Muslim Women's Club" (1926), Workers Vanguard 787

 

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