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when a new generation has grown up: a generation of men who never in all their lives have had occasion to purchase a woman's surrender either for money or with any other means of social power, and of women who have never been obliged to surrender to any man out of any consideration other than that of real love, or to refrain from giving themselves to their beloved for fear of the economic consequences.4
One need not therefore rack one's brains on what the state of the" man-woman ralationship would be in future India. The point now is to see that our generation dedicates itself to the job of preparing the conditions in which the new generation of the type envisaged by Engels can grow up, that is, develop the movement for people's democracy, leading to the emergence of socialism and finally communism. It is to this end that the women's movement in particular ,and the social reform movement in general have to address themselves.
1 SA Collett, The Life and Letters of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Sadharan Brahmo Samaj,
Calcutta, 1962, pp 33-34. a Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, Selected Works
Progress Publishers, Moscow. 8 Ibid. pp50"51. 4 Frederick Engels, Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Marx and
Engels, Selected Works Vo\ III, Moscow.