If I understand this, the reaction that people on the left have to friends or relatives joining the army would lead us to try to stop them from doing it. Wage-earning soldiers sound like mercenaries.
"The visceral negative reaction that many have to the idea of themselves or their loved ones engaging in sex work..." could, for those on the left, extend to ALL work! On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 07:13 PM, D Derwin wrote: > > The visceral positive reaction that many have to the idea of themselves or > their loved ones joining the army and engaging in death and pain work > suggests that the left position on war and militarism, and on the need to > ultimately organise wage-earning soldiers, is not intuitive but desirable. > > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 9:49 p.m., rosalux < [email protected] > wrote: > >> >> >> “ The visceral negative reaction that many have to the idea of themselves >> or their loved ones engaging in sex work suggests that the left position >> of sex work being work is neither intuitive nor desirable. Nonetheless, >> the contemporary left has joined hands with liberal feminists, >> capitalists, pimps, and bourgeois academics in insisting that sex work is >> wage labor like any other.” >> >> >> >> >> >> >> https://www.thebellows.org/the-folly-of-sex-work-advocacy/ ( >> https://www.thebellows.org/the-folly-of-sex-work-advocacy/ ) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1488): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1488 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76809884/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
