(1910) - Woman and Socialism - August Bebel
In 1879, then revised in 1910, August Bebel addressed the oppression and inequality of women under the current social and economic systems, particularly in bourgeois society. He examined the systemic oppression of women within bourgeois society, emphasizing how marriage and property laws reinforced gender inequality. He argued that under socialism, women would achieve full equality, with the abolition of private property leading to their economic and social independence, free from traditional constraints on marriage and family. Bebel envisioned women’s liberation rested on the idea that socialism would create a society where all individuals, regardless of gender, could achieving true freedom and equality.
In the new society woman will be entirely independent, both socially and economically... She studies, works, enjoys pleasures and recreation with other women or with men, as she may choose or as occasions may present themselves.