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“Unfortunately it is often easier to ignore, dismiss, reject, and even hurt one another rather than engage in constructive confrontation.”
― Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
― Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
“...much overt sex work, as well as the subtler forms of commodified sexuality for sale, is the result of an economic system that provides little material security for women, and encourages all people to turn everything they have (their labor, their reputations, their emotions, their bodily fluids and ova, and so forth) into a product that can be sold on a market where prices are determined by the caprices of supply and demand.”
― Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
― Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
“Whether we like it or not, capitalism commodifies almost every aspect of our private lives, as sexual economics theory predicts. Personal relationships take time and energy that few of us have to spare as we scramble to make ends meet in the precarious gig economy. We are often exhausted and drained, unwilling to invest the emotional resources necessary to make loving relationships without compensation.”
― Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
― Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
“The state of being female is complicated by other categories such as class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and so on.”
― Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
― Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”
― Principles of Political Economy
― Principles of Political Economy
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