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.
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.
" "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;
The Communist Manifesto
The bourgeois accusation that Communism would introduce communal wives, which the Manifesto rebuts by pointing to existing bourgeois sexual exploitation.
Bourgeois marriage is in reality a system of wives in common and thus, at the most, what the Communists might possibly be reproached with, is that they desire to introduce, in substitution for a hypocritically concealed, an openly legalised community of women.
But you Communists would introduce community of women, screams the whole bourgeoisie in chorus.
For the rest, nothing is more ridiculous than the virtuous indignation of our bourgeois at the community of women which, they pretend, is to be openly and officially established by the Communists.