Lucas: Women have nothing to lose but their gains

The Women’s Movement needs a new slogan.

“Women’s rights are human rights” is all right as far as it goes. But in these changing times, does it go far enough?

With all deference to Karl Marx and his rabble-rousing buddy Friedrich Engels, a new slogan should go something like this: “Women of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your gains.”

The quote is a knock-off from their Communist Manifesto, which called for a worldwide communist revolution to free workers from the oppressive boot of capitalism.

The rallying cry came from a pair of guys who never had a real job between them. Marx was a sometime journalist, which, as everybody knows, is not a real job, and Engels was the son of a rich mill owner.

The actual quote, which in 1848 shook the capitalist world, was, “Workers of