Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 01:04:30 -0500 From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki) Subject: Re: M-TH: State-Run Brothels, Or The Community of Women and Children >But you Communists would introduce community of women, screams the whole >bourgeoisie in chorus. > >The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that >the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, >can come to no other conclusion that the lot of being common to all will >likewise fall to the women. > >He has not even a suspicion that the real point aimed at is doing away with >the status of women as mere instruments of production. > >The Communist Manifesto > >It has been striking to me that so much of this thread concerning state run >brothels has proceeded without reference to the above words from the Communist >Manifesto, which are so apropos of the idea. It is no less striking to me that >some who most loudly and continuously proclaim their fidelity to Marxism and >Communism could advocate state run brothels. Perhaps the vitriolic attacks on >feminism speak more of the fundamental politics at work than all of the >recitations of the Trotskyist creed. Not really Leo. Glad to see you pulled out some Communist stuff on this. But my purposal was implicitly a reansitional purposal as a possible instrumrent to take us from point a to point b..And it is quite implicitly "Trotskyist" in its transitional "method". So despite the Communist manifesto you just don't want to face living reality and trying to change it.. And as far as all the "market" mumbo jumbo. Prostitution in a sense is no different then the small peasant. Other then the peasant uses his little land bit to turn a buck and the prostitute her/his body.. Warm regards Bob Malecki --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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