>I think Clara Zetkin, not Kollontai, is the source of this story, in her
>pamphlet "Reminiscences of Lenin". Bits of it are reprinted in Robert
>Tucker's "Lenin Anthology", and the passage on "glass of water" theory is
>pp.692-3.
>
>Lenin: "I consider the famous 'glass of water' theory as completely
>unMarxist and, moreover, as anti-social... To be sure, thirst has to be
>quenched. But would a normal person normally lie down in the gutter and
>drink from a puddle? Or even from a glass that has been greased by many
>lips?...", and so on.
Thanks to google, the full reference seems to be at
http://www.maoism.org/misc/women/Zetkin.htm
Clara Zetkin - My Recollections of Lenin
From MY MEMORANDUM BOOK
A dramatic and well written account, presumably without the aid of a tape recorder, of a meeting in 1920.
It is punctuated with little vignettes like:
"Lenin sprang to his feet, slapped the table with his hand and paced up and down the room."
It contains a clear argument by Lenin against mechanical materialism and an argument that sexual relations between humans are moulded by the ideological superstructure.
Also
http://www.marxists.org.uk/subject/women/authors/zetkin/zetkin1.htm
Clara Zetkin
Lenin on the Women's Question
From My Memorandum Book
Chris Burford