You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.
Vladimir LeninUnity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
Vladimir LeninFor the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
Vladimir LeninThe status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.
Vladimir Lenin