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Community of women is a condition which belongs entirely to bourgeois…

Quote byFriedrich Engels · 1820–1895

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: ' (1847).

English (original)

Community of women is a condition which belongs entirely to bourgeois society and which today finds its complete expression in prostitution. But prostitution is based on private property and falls with it. Thus, communist society, instead of introducing community of women, in fact abolishes it.

— Friedrich Engels

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