From: Jim Devine
Michael Perelman wrote:
> Or how about moms who marketize the household. "Today we have pancakes for
> $2.00 or oatmeal for $1.00. Can I take your order?"
or "how much money are you willing to pay for sex, dear?"
^^^^^^^
"The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has
reduced the family relation to a mere money relation...
...Our bourgeois, not content with having wives and daughters of their
proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the
greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives.
Bourgeois marriage is, in reality, a system of wives in common and thus, at the
most, what the Communists might possibly be reproached with is that they desire
to introduce, in substitution for a hypocritically concealed, an openly
legalised community of women. For the rest, it is self-evident that the
abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition
of the community of women springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution
both public and private. "
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm
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