A ‘Soldier of the Third International’

Abstract

Though Mentona Moser was a Communist, she did not — like so many of her comrades — simply reject welfare work as an instrument of stabilizing the capitalist system. She tried to develop and realise her own forms of social activities, and for this reason she is an interesting pioneer of social work. It is also remarkable that she herself, who originally belonged to the Swiss financial aristocracy, began her working life by learning and practising bourgeois forms of charity work in England and in Switzerland. (Moser 1903 and 1905)