"Bourgeois #democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of #freedom and #equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of #women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited …. There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be real 'freedom' as long as there is no freedom for women from the privileges which the law grants to men, as long as there is no freedom for the workers from the yoke of capital”
— V.I. #Lenin [born #otd], Soviet Power & The Status of Women (1919)
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