In The Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels argue that “These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity” (Marx and Engels 18). Respectively, a working person, according to them, becomes a commodity once they start selling their work and compete with other laborers for the buyer. By its definition, a commodity is an inanimate noun and usually applied to objects that are for sale. Therefore, the comparison of a human being to a commodity means the deprivation of one of their humanity. It also means that s person loses all their ideals, thoughts, ideas, hopes and aspirations since the commodity is as good as its ability to satisfy the desires of the buyer, and the buyer in this situation does not purchase person’s characters,
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Indeed, women were forced to stop being people whose main objectives were to take care of their children and the household; now they had to work the same paid shifts as men since husband’s wages were not enough to sustain a whole family. Kollontai argues that capitalism is to blame for this situation and that communism is the solution for the problem. It means that capitalism only sees women as another type of commodity and her hard labor as a wife and mother is taken for granted and unpaid. It also tells us that a family in the capitalist society the sale of services between the husband and wife. However, even though as Kollontai predicted, USSR indeed had free “homes for very small babies, creches, kindergartens, children’s colonies and homes, hospitals and health resorts for sick children”, it was not always helpful for mothers because often they simply were filled and they had to wait for month and year to get there. Moreover, it is still an issue the former Soviet Union. Kollontai mentioned poor conditions of women who had to work two shifts, one at the actual paid job and another at home; however, although she argued that communism can solve this problem, USSR was not able to fix such attitude towards women’s labor among population and this attitude is still prevalent in the former Soviet Union countries. A lot of women are still in the position where they work as hard or harder as their husbands and expected to cook, to clean, and to care about their kids
Indeed, women were forced to stop being people whose main objectives were to take care of their children and the household; now they had to work the same paid shifts as men since husband’s wages were not enough to sustain a whole family. Kollontai argues that capitalism is to blame for this situation and that communism is the solution for the problem. It means that capitalism only sees women as another type of commodity and her hard labor as a wife and mother is taken for granted and unpaid. It also tells us that a family in the capitalist society the sale of services between the husband and wife. However, even though as Kollontai predicted, USSR indeed had free “homes for very small babies, creches, kindergartens, children’s colonies and homes, hospitals and health resorts for sick children”, it was not always helpful for mothers because often they simply were filled and they had to wait for month and year to get there. Moreover, it is still an issue the former Soviet Union. Kollontai mentioned poor conditions of women who had to work two shifts, one at the actual paid job and another at home; however, although she argued that communism can solve this problem, USSR was not able to fix such attitude towards women’s labor among population and this attitude is still prevalent in the former Soviet Union countries. A lot of women are still in the position where they work as hard or harder as their husbands and expected to cook, to clean, and to care about their kids