Re: Marx & Engels on Prostitution (was Re: Women &Industrialization)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>YF> Marx & Engels made some very interesting remarks on the subject of
>YF> prostitution.
>
>   I want to mention the letter to August Bebel written by Friedrich
>Engels on December 22, 1892. August Bebel had made an intervention in
>the "Reichstag" (the German parliament of that time) on a law project
>against prostitution, and Engels gives his comments. "As long as it is
>impossible to abolish prostitution altogether, the liberation of the
>women from all exceptional legislation is our prime demand", is the
>first sentence (my translation from German).
>
>   I don't know if Bebel's speech is available anywhere except the
>stenographic records of the imperial Reichstag...
>
>Yours,
>Lueko Willms

Thanks for the reference.  If you ever come across the Babel speech
in question, could you post it here or send it to me offlist?

Yoshie