Furthermore, poor women and working class women are "productive" but yet have no "political rights." Two years later, Luxemburg would that the poor and working class woman should be weary of the "bourgeois advocates of women's rights" who only "want to secure political rights in order then to assume a role in political life" ("The Proletarian Woman").
Revolutionary Social Democracy does not ask for justice! [5]
"We do not depend on justice from the ruling class, but solely on the revolutionary power of the working masses and on the course of social development which prepares the ground for this power." Consequently, we must recognize in our world today that the capitalist rulers profit from national boundaries but the U.S. Empire and its "allies" and their combined batons, tasers, drones, fighter jets, bombs, jail and prison cells are for us--the proletarian of the world. The anti-democratic nature of the bourgeois society fears women's suffrage as women have the potential to "advance and intensify" the proletarian class struggle. The bourgeois class understands this and the proletariat must understand this as well. "The proletarian woman can only follow the path of the workers' struggle, the opposite to winning an inch of real power through primarily legal status" ("The Proletarian Woman"). There can be no boundaries of any kind in our struggle against the capitalist rulers, against an Empire intent on war and more war.
Rosa Luxemburg would be pleased to see the people take to the streets in the global Occupy Wall Street protests, acknowledging, as they do so, that the artificial divisions of humanity that result in dispossession, deportation, and misery, are no longer acceptable, and that people around the world will come together to work toward a democratic world order.
Those "vanguard" leaders with their vested interests in capitalism and imperialist ventures will never tell the truth about capitalism's proliferation of poverty and its violent repressive apparatus. Therefore, when we hear speeches or read articles expounding on the human condition under capitalism and these speeches and articles conclude with a request that we "ask Obama-- or "ask our Congressional representative-- we should recognize the message from the capitalist rulers and we will know then that these individuals are doing a disservice to the poor and working classes. We should shut our ears or tear the pages to shreds! We should shout: Shame on you--for you are as much an arm of the repressive apparatus as the militarized police force, if not more so because you have the ears of the people, and clearly you are deceivers. We have work to do! Our power will bring about the balance between the Eagle and the Serpent.
Luxemburg:
Proletarian women, the poorest of the poor, the most disempowered of the disempowered, hurry to join the struggle for the emancipation of women and of humankind from the horrors of capitalist domination! ("The Proletarian Woman")
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