Page:Lily Gair Wilkinson - Revolutionary Socialism and the Woman's Movement.djvu/28

 25 It is impossible to predict the detailed results of this true freedom of women. Whatever ideas individuals may hold in regard to this can only be more or less of guess-work. The course of social evolution must decide.

But this much can be said: If the home in its true sense is the ideal of the race, if monogamy in its true sense is also an ideal, these are ideals which will only be possible of realisation under Socialism. There is nothing in Socialism incompatible with that true home life which capitalism destroys. What is only bitter mockery as preached by capitalist moralists may very well become a healthy and beautiful reality in the Socialist Republic.

In any case it is to Socialism that women must look for their freedom; and Socialism can only be achieved by a united working class. Let the women workers of to-day unite with their brother wage-slaves to put an end to that suffering and subjection in which the silent generations of the women of the past have lived and died.

The women of to-day must realise that theirs are the most degrading chains that ever slavery knew. So much the greater then will be their effort. For in proportion as the struggle has been long, and in proportion to its bitterness, must be the strength of the effort towards that freedom which will end it.