"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!"
Except that most on the Left actually realise that work is necessary for survival. "Anti-work" activism is ultimately about other people doing the work so that the "Anti-work" activist doesn't have to. Marxism is not about not working. It's about wresting control from capital so that the work is democratically controlled and the product of that work is distributed rationally to meet need. To get back to the original post, I can easily grasp where much (but not all) existing work would fit into that model in a socialist society. I confess, I'm not sure where sex work - (mostly) women "choosing" to have sex with strangers, the nature of such sex being determined by the "client", to put food on the table - would fit in. Comradely, John On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 11:36 AM C. Horgan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- "All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks." Sarah Moore Grimke, abolitionist (1792-1873) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1490): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1490 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
