Born of the liberal womb, feminism has not been put into effect during the development of capitalism. It is now, when the historical trajectory of democracy is reaching its end, that women are gaining the political and legal rights of men. And it is the Russian Revolution that has explicitly and categorically granted to women the equality and freedom that Babeuf and the egalitarians demanded in vain from the French revolution more than a century ago. But if bourgeois democracy has not implemented feminism, it has involuntarily created the moral and material conditions and premises for its realization. It has given women value as an element of production, as an economic factor, making increasingly extensive and intensive use of their labor.
Work radically changes the female mentality and spirit.
By virtue of her labor, woman gains a new idea of herself. Formerly, society destined woman to marriage or concubinage. It now principally destines her to work. This fact has changed and elevated the position of women in life. Those who impugn feminism and its progress with sentimental or traditionalist arguments claim that women should be educated only for the home.