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The Role Of Marxist Feminism In Maxim Gorky's Mother

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Maxim Gorky’s Mother through the Lens of Marxist Feminism Dr.Neelam Bhardwaj Assistant Professor, S.C.D. Govt. College, Ludhiana

Abstract: Maxim Gorky’s Mother is an influential piece of propaganda about the revolutionary spirit of an old lady who is mother of only one activist Pavel. But when her son is imprisoned, she works wonderfully for his revolutionary cause and becomes the mother of all the other activists as well as the whole revolution. It is a heart moving account of the miserable condition of workers who work hard but get no reward for that and pass the whole life from hand to mouth. It pushes them to the ignoble path of drinking and making violent clashes. Gorky was an optimistic novelist who does not stop at pointing out the problem but shows the positive solution to the problem too. Mother is truly a Marxist Feminist novel in a true sense. Mother presents broad and generalized picture of the Nilovna & …show more content…

The Marxist Feminist‘s ideology sprung from Engles in his ‘The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State’ (1884). In his book, he explained that women’s inferiority is not a result of her biological nature but of social affairs. The Marxist Feminists believe that the one way for women to emancipate themselves is through the abolition of the capitalist society. Women can only be truly free, truly equal with men, truly feminists if they stand on the grounds of socialism and working class. The liberation of men and women from the bondage of the inhuman capitalist society is the true strength of the Marxist- Feminist

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