... Along with the majority of the social democrats, she considered the fight for women's rights as another part of the class struggle. On these ideological grounds, Clara Zetkin declined to work with the middle-class women's movement, known as the New Women's Movement. They had common goals, but from her point of view no agreement on the way to reach them. This was clearest during the fight for the right to vote for women. It was the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which was the first to take up the demand for women's suffrage in its platform in 1891; the SPD leader and representative August Bebel first demanded the right to vote for women in the Reichstag. However, it was the radical wing of the middle-class women's movement that in 1902 created the Deutschen Verein für Frauenstimmrecht (German Association for Women's Suffrage) and in 1904 participated in the founding of the International ...

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