Community of Women
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
communion · community · community of women · wives in common · women held in common
in the texts
Stromata
The doctrine, held by several sects, that women and property should be shared in common.
This man, then, says in his work On Justice that the justice of God is a kind of community based on equality.
" "Mine" and "thine," he says, crept in through the laws, so that the earth and possessions, and even marriage, are no longer enjoyed in common;
Having practised this community in such an "agape," they then by day demand from whatever women they wish obedience to the Carpocratian law—I dare not call it the law of God.
The Communist Manifesto
The bourgeois accusation that Communism would introduce communal wives, which the Manifesto rebuts by pointing to existing bourgeois sexual exploitation.
But you Communists would introduce community of women, screams the whole bourgeoisie in chorus.
He has not even a suspicion that the real point is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production.
He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women.