Milly Witkop was a Ukrainian-born Jewish anarcho-syndicalist, feminist writer and activist.
19 Facts About Milly Witkop
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Milly Witkop was the common-law wife of the prominent anarcho-syndicalist leader Rudolf Rocker.
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Milly Witkop became influenced by the works of the anarchist theorist Peter Kropotkin.
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From October 1898, Rocker and Milly Witkop co-edited the Arbeyter Fraynd.
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Rocker and Milly Witkop were opposed to World War I after it broke out in 1914, unlike many other anarchists such as Kropotkin, who supported the Allied cause.
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Milly Witkop continued her anti-war activities until she was arrested in 1916.
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Milly Witkop then left the United Kingdom to join her husband and son in the Netherlands.
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Milly Witkop was one of the leading founders of the Women's Union in Berlin in 1920.
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From 1921, the Der Frauenbund was published as a supplement to the FAUD organ Der Syndikalist, Milly Witkop was one of its primary writers.
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Milly Witkop reasoned that proletarian women were exploited not only by capitalism like male workers, but by their male counterparts.
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Milly Witkop contended therefore that women must actively fight for their rights, much like workers must fight capitalism for theirs.
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Milly Witkop insisted on the necessity of women taking part in class struggle.
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Milly Witkop held that domestic work should be deemed equally valuable to wage labor.
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Milly Witkop called for access to birth control and advocated a childbearing strike.
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Milly Witkop was not only active in the syndicalist and feminist movement, but worked to fight racism and anti-Semitism.
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Milly Witkop was often frustrated by what she considered an unwillingness to fight anti-Semitism in the labor movement.
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Milly Witkop favored the idea of bi-nationality developed by Martin Buber and Ahad Ha'am.
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The Mohegan commune, especially Milly Witkop, was active in sending material support to German anarchists.
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Milly Witkop had been suffering from difficulties of breathing for months.