There are a great number of proletarian women, who, although they follow our movement with sympathy, live completely apart from it. They are convinced that their only task is to look after the home; hence a certain disdainful disregard for everything outside the narrow circle of the four walls that surround them.

All of them understand their ability as good housewives who can serenely overcome the usual difficulties that governing a home gives, especially when it is a proletarian home, conscious of their wisdom and spirit of sacrifice, they have the pride of those who are convinced that they are entirely fulfilling their duty. Indeed, they make themselves resourceful to make the home dear and comfortable, and sometimes their self-sacrifice in enduring the same of the family the most bilious characters and the harshest humiliations.

There can be no comfortable home if there is no woman in it. And who does not appreciate women's skills in household governance?

But this does not mean that it should be fossilized within the domestic walls.

Proletarian women who persist in this notion, who truly believe that that is their only task, are in error and are guilty toward their own class.

All these unknown treasures, of sacrifice, energy and self-denial, which they employ to keep the family and the home upright and firm, are useless.

The economic imbalance and imperialism of capitalist society have given rise to the most monstrous war humanity has known, blind and brutal force. War has dealt the most powerful blows to the family structure, opened deep cracks that women vainly try to stem. The war has spawned a great crisis, workers are thrown on the scrap heap, and how can one live when unemployment lasts for months on end, when the scant savings are gone?

It is the superfluous items of the home that begin to go, it is those items bought with sacrifice, kept with care, that made the home intimate and dear, that go; and most often these superfluous items are followed by the necessary ones.

Housewives thought they had a home of their own, because it was created by labor, by daily sacrifice, and for that reason more loved; but black misery is unforgiving, even to sentiment.

Capitalist society does not ensure bread for workers, and consequently women are not assured a home either.

It is the bourgeoisie itself, which preaches that the home is the realm of women, that with its system brings down this impoverished realm. It removes women from it in order to send them to the factory, it removes their men in order to send them to the war, and with unemployment it makes them lack bread.

These are the disruptive elements of family and home against which women should fight.

It is not by shrinking into one's selfishness that one secures bread, it is not by raising submissive people that one is saved from wars, it is not by trusting in God that one solves social problems.

The home and the family are closely connected to the system of capitalist society, the home must be rebuilt on other foundations, to build these foundations one must tear down those of the old bourgeois society.

Even the women of the home must sometimes leave the hearth to take part in the struggle that the proletarian army conducts for its redemption.