♫ Music and Peace ♫ asked:


Also, was he a musician? He seems to have a lot of quotes about the arts…..from his quotes, I can’t tell if he was against women’s rights….it seems like he was

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8 Responses to “Was Karl Marx for or against women’s rights?”

1. Rio Madeira on June 8th, 2007 3:11 pm

   To my knowledge, he was in favour of women’s rights, but they can only go so far in a Marxist system.

2. Ronnie on June 10th, 2007 2:50 pm

   He was a true man… a thinker, an appreciater of fine cigars, wine, and female form. He loved women. Of any color, age, or size. Well, almost any.

3. Sickly Sweet on June 11th, 2007 2:44 pm

   The term you need to use while searching is the woman question. That was the phrased used during the 19th and early 20th century in Russia.

   You’ll find lots more and the answer to your question is yes (of course, he was a feminist).

4. trumpetboy1333 on June 13th, 2007 4:03 pm

   Well he Was the father of communism and written in the October Manifesto…Was supposed to bring equality to all with same wages and a government FOr the people in no poverty….So id Assume so

5. Max Power on June 15th, 2007 5:25 am

   I doubt it since he felt all rights belonged to the common good aka the central gov’t.

   The better question is why has feminism adopted Karl Marx’s view of the world. Each according to thier ability, equal outcome ………..

6. Young Mr Wilde on June 15th, 2007 10:21 pm

   Engels’ works are littered with early feminism (Condition of the Working Class) and collaborations between Marx and Engels mention women’s exploitation as a representation of larger exploitation, but within the family unit.
   Marx was a ‘man of his times’ so it’s possible he might not have entirely practised what he preached, but there is no concrete evidence to show that he was mysogynist or brutish, despite what the hatchet jobs claim.

   He was a poetic youth and wrote a tragic play and published poetry, so quoting the arts was not beyond him.

7. Eleanor B on June 17th, 2007 4:41 pm

   Yes, he believed women were inherently oppresed by capitalism, as they lost out economically by staying home to raise children, and so remained dependent on men. He believed communism would solve these problems for women

8. Horace on June 20th, 2007 6:41 pm

   FOR, which is why feminism is so pro-Marxism in its demands about women, work, and compensation. Feminists demand that the woman worker be paid the same as male workers regardless of the type, amount, or quality of work. That is essentially what communism is.