Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:32:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tracy Quan <quan-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-FEM: Queer Kids and the...Libertarianism/Individualism


But you still aren't addressing the bizarre -- and totally superstitious
-- tendency people have with regard to sex work. As far as I can see, an
honest Marxist wouldn't care whether sex is involved: Prostitution becomes
a labor issue. In the sex workers movement, this has already been figured
out, and the conflict between right and left tendencies continues. As is
to be expected, it's the Machine Activists who control everything, while
the ideological poets battle it out... 

Movement gossip aside, this idea -- that we have no soul, that political
science will make everything clearer -- this is a myth, too. IMHO. I mean,
*who says*??

As for character types -- it's more vulgar than you think.  I'm used to
categorizing personalities because, well, it *works* in the
sexual marketplace. 

Having said this, I *love* creation myths, though I am probably an
atheist... So maybe you're onto something. :) 

On Fri, 1 Aug 1997 owner-marxism-feminism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU wrote:

> Tracy,
> 
> 	I would not have needed your introduction as a libertarian to
> identify your politics pretty closely. First, treating purchase and sale
> of *anything* as natural; now the following individualist and idealist
> analysis of the causes of human action. This listing of character types is
> simply one more instance of what I think of as the core of the Adam/Eve
> myth in its capitalist (Miltonic) version:  everything comes from some
> mystical impulse within the "human soul" or "human mind." 
> 
> Carrol
> 
> You write:
> 
> > mistake. There are melancholy personalities in every walk of life; there
> > are Pollyannas, take charge types, go-getters, sneaks, cheats, thieves,
> > rats and saints in *every* occupational category. I am fed up with reading
> 
> 
>