"The older tradition that was destroyed was instead that women should be able to survive without selling their labor to the capitalists, that a family should be possible with just one income, and that none of the work required to maintain a family should need to be outsourced to domestic servants."
Question: What do you mean by "women should be able to survive without selling their labor to the capitalists"? What would that look like, or how do you envision it?
I am so beyond happy you're writing this book. I've been noticing this creeping of intersectionality and wokeness replacing previous class-analysis for a solid decade now, but nobody listened.
I love this line: " the poor are being “liberated” from making common cause together against the capitalists and instead having their lives narrated by identity struggle."
Yes! Whoever decided that all our lives can be narrated by identity-struggle? I tell you who: marketers. This is where these ideas originate from.
Thank you, thank you. If you need any frontline history from 1970-2010 from an emerging TERF who saw too much and could speak to no one about it, do not hesitate to contact me.
Boom and bust, war and peace, are all events where capital can move up to fewer and fewer at the top while draining the lower half. Stability and sustainability has never been their goal.
Not written for the High School graduate, or less educated, but impressive in its insights.
A long way of suggesting that the Neoliberal strategy of single issue and identity politics in dividing and neutralizing the Left in general, and those politically active in particular, is working. Bullshit still baffles brains, and people like Obama, Biden and even Sanders continue to get elected by well meaning folks because this isn't politics and hasn't been for several centuries. Enlightenment brought with it the right perspectives for freedom and new ways of governing, but got hijacked somewhere along the way to become an extension of Aristocratic Feudalism, substituting a new egalitarian breed of Aristocrat... of Wealth.
The public's weakness for materialism has proved its Achilles Heel, and until the 'average' person sees their prospects as poor to poverty, there will be no taste among Americans for the risks of revolution. And revolution is what it will take to unseat the con game of Capitalism.
"The older tradition that was destroyed was instead that women should be able to survive without selling their labor to the capitalists, that a family should be possible with just one income, and that none of the work required to maintain a family should need to be outsourced to domestic servants."
Question: What do you mean by "women should be able to survive without selling their labor to the capitalists"? What would that look like, or how do you envision it?
I am so beyond happy you're writing this book. I've been noticing this creeping of intersectionality and wokeness replacing previous class-analysis for a solid decade now, but nobody listened.
I love this line: " the poor are being “liberated” from making common cause together against the capitalists and instead having their lives narrated by identity struggle."
Yes! Whoever decided that all our lives can be narrated by identity-struggle? I tell you who: marketers. This is where these ideas originate from.
Thank you, thank you. If you need any frontline history from 1970-2010 from an emerging TERF who saw too much and could speak to no one about it, do not hesitate to contact me.
Boom and bust, war and peace, are all events where capital can move up to fewer and fewer at the top while draining the lower half. Stability and sustainability has never been their goal.
Jessie Bernard wrote her ground breaking book in 1972. I suspect Silvia might have built on that. Greer seems to have had her radar in a similar zone.
Good news. Dead at 80: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thorstad
Not written for the High School graduate, or less educated, but impressive in its insights.
A long way of suggesting that the Neoliberal strategy of single issue and identity politics in dividing and neutralizing the Left in general, and those politically active in particular, is working. Bullshit still baffles brains, and people like Obama, Biden and even Sanders continue to get elected by well meaning folks because this isn't politics and hasn't been for several centuries. Enlightenment brought with it the right perspectives for freedom and new ways of governing, but got hijacked somewhere along the way to become an extension of Aristocratic Feudalism, substituting a new egalitarian breed of Aristocrat... of Wealth.
The public's weakness for materialism has proved its Achilles Heel, and until the 'average' person sees their prospects as poor to poverty, there will be no taste among Americans for the risks of revolution. And revolution is what it will take to unseat the con game of Capitalism.