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Fannie Jacobs (November 1, 1885—July 6, 1977, also known as Cele Berney), was a Socialist and Communist Labor Party women's rights activist who ran in both 1918 and 1919 for the New York State House of Representatives or Assembly, and was an immigrant from Russia, immigrating from Russia to Brooklyn, New York, when she was four or five years old sometime in 1891.

Early life
Fannie Jacobs was born on November 1, 1885 somewhere in Russia. She spoke Yiddish. Fannie was a nickname and Jacobs was her married name.

Immigration to America
Sometime in 1891, when she was four or five years old, she immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, from Russia.

1918 and 1919 Run for New York State House of Representatives or Assembly
In 1918, two years before women got the right to vote, Fannie ran as the Socialist candidate for the New York State House of Representatives or Assembly. She gave the speech "Women-Past, Present, and Future" to a large crowd of people, so big that some had to stand in the aisles.

In 1919, she ran again, but in the Communist Labor Party. When they first counted the results, she was the winner. But during the recount, she lost.

On December 9, 1919, at a Communist Labor Party in Brooklyn, New York, she gave a speech where she said the following:

"You have freedom of speech, we have freedom of assemblage, freedom of press, providing it is not against the interest of the capitalist class; but if ever you try to change the conditions under which you live, so that it is in the interest of the working class, you will find that dictatorship more brutal than that of Czarist Russia; and any time, or as soon as the workers succeed in changing the government from a government representing a few in the interest of the few, to a government representing the men and women in the shops, in the mines, in the mills, in the factories, when they establish such a government, they will be compelled by the logic of events to lay down a dictatorship of the working class.

We will have freedom of assemblage, freedom of press, and freedom of speech, on condition that it is not against the interest of the working class. The difference between the dictatorship of the capitalist class, and that of the working class is this: That the capitalist class has the dictatorship of the few, over and above and against the interest of the vast majority, and the dictatorship of the proletariat is a dictatorship of the great vast majority over such elements who try to work against the interest of the great majority; and so our Socialists, many of us, were against the dictatorship of the proletariat, although Comrade Lenin, that great and wonderful mind, the greatest mind of the twentieth century, although he warned us in the final struggle that the logic of events in every country will compel the workers to establish such a proletariat - we were against it. We were not for it; but it seems that the ruling class of this land understood Lenin better than the Socialists did themselves; and so they showed us, and are showing us, that they mean to establish a dictatorship of the ruling class."

Later life and death
In later life, Fannie called herself Cele Berney. Not yet 92, she died on July 6, 1977 in Miami, Florida.

Personal life
In 1902, she married Ralph M. Jacobs. They had three children:


 * Arthur S. Jacobs (b. 1903)
 * Lillian Jacobs (b. 1906), who married a Mr. Levitch
 * Theodore Jacobs (b. 1911)