The following study guide was originally published by The Marxist-Leninist news blog:
“In order to build a great socialist society it is of the utmost importance to arouse the broad masses of women to join in productive activity. Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production. Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.” – Mao Zedong, “Introductory Note to ‘Women Have Gone to the Labor Front’”
Beginning and Essential readings
- Lenin on the Women’s Question by Clara Zetkin
- Women’s Liberation Is a Component Part of the Proletarian Revolution by Hsu Kwang
- An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Women (PDF) by Claudia Jones
- The Question of Women’s Leadership in People’s War in Nepal by Parvati
Supplementary readings
- Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Frederick Engels
- Woman and Socialism by August Bebel
- Soviet Power and the Status of Women by V.I. Lenin
- Letter to Inessa Armand (January 17, 1915) by V.I. Lenin
- Letter to Inessa Armand (January 24, 1915) by V.I. Lenin
- Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle by Rosa Luxemburg
- The Social Basis of the Women’s Question by Alexandra Kollantai
- History of the movement of Women workers in Russia by Alexandra Kollontai
- The Myth of Women’s Inferiority by Evelyn Reed
- On 5th Anniversary of First Women Workers’ and Peasants’ Congress by J.V. Stalin
- On Miss Chao’s Suicide by Mao Zedong
- Women’s Liberation in China by Soong Ching Ling
- Liberation of Women by Lu Yu-lan
- The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements by Huey P. Newton
- Position Paper on Women in the Movement by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Lavender and Red by Leslie Feinberg
- LGBT Liberation: An essential working-class struggle by Leslie Feinberg
- Interview with Mariela Castro on the Future of Sex and Socialism in Cuba
- Claudia Jones, Communist by Ella Rule
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