134 - A.K. 47 - The Labor of Women in the Evolution of the Economy - Part 3
A.K. 47 - Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai - Un podcast de Kristen R. Ghodsee
Kristen Ghodsee reads the final part of Alexandra Kollontai's 1921 essay, "The Labor of Women in the Evolution of the Economy" to explore Kollontai's arguments for the socialization of the family and the socialist uses of the maternal instinct. Although Kollontai is openly pro-natalist, and emphasizes that motherhood is a social obligation to help produce new workers for the world's first workers state, she is making these arguments to suspicious men in the Bolshevik government who do not wan...