Proletarian Feminism of Rosa Luxemburg

Abstract

Rosa Luxemburg criticised the suffrage movement as being focused on bourgeois women, but neglecting the needs of proletarian women. According to Luxemburg, proletarian women deserved political rights, since they were the most oppressed group in the unjust socio-economical system. In 1914, the magazine „Sozialdemokratische Korrespondenz” published Luxemburg’s article The Proletarian Woman, written for International Women’s Day, where she vividly portrays the oppression of working women, and articulates opposition to the cruelty and exploitation experienced by women of all races and nationalities.