Wait so if I’m not subscribed to a private protection company I lose my rights to body and property, or at least enforcement of these rights? Classic statist arguing for taxation and the limiting of freedom in property ownership!!
Bureaucratic nightmare is putting it lightly, imagine if private courts and “protection agencies” had different standards of punishment, like freaky people can go to Freaky Adjudication and have anyone who steals from them spanked or something
You act like it's blatantly obvious that commodities would exist under communism and mock the person who pointed it out to you, yet you vehemently deny that something else just as obvious as the existence of commodities will also still very much exist and have a place under communism, calling it utter nonsense and requiring "bourgeois philosophy" without any explanation.
It’s blatantly obvious that commodities would not exist under communism, just as it’s obvious that private property, exchange property, would not (and with it the treatment of sex not as a private affair but a thing to be bought and sold, even in the realm of marriage).
That something else involves sex, though. Hmm. Funny how work that involves sex always brings out a specific type with an angry and reactionary axe to grind.
You highlight the work aspect of sex work as if I’m saying it’s not work, or to say that it‘s work only quantitatively different from manufacturing goods, delivering goods, etc. I’m not saying sex work is immoral or impure or condemning it based on moral judgement.
Someone may sleep with many members of society and be supported in their needs by the community through the immense wealth of the people under communism, but the support of their needs would not be predicated on their sleeping with members of the community. And their activity would necessarily not contribute to the welfare of the whole community but only persons selected.
At least u/porcupine can make a reasonable case by redefining prostitution as something other than and separate from sex work rather than denying the legitimacy and validity of sex work.
Replacing cash with goods doesn’t make prostitution not sex work or change the relations at play. People misunderstand communism, due to a misunderstanding of its relation to early communal society, as some sort of return to the end stage of historical communities where everyone lives in common low development and individual exchange happens under the table. There will be no room for individual exchange because the phase of individual ownership of items of exchange has passed, and in fact communism will free sexual relations from the restrictions of private property, and therefore of even de-facto prostitution such as the marriage based on financial dependence.
Heh, finally things are getting interesting, dattebayo.
As for me? Well, I’m just looking forward to sitting back and seeing how all the different sides spin this. I’m above this whole “politics” thing… guess that’s just the life of a thinker like me.
You're right, and by God... I'm worried. We need someone who can get in that seat and do the duties of the president. Imagine Biden's not in his right state of mind and weapons shipments to Nazis in Ukraine need to be approved, or a railroad workers' strike needs to be put down, or Israel needs more bombs to drop on Palestinian villages. Who is going to pull through? Who's going to get up and say, "put those migrants in concentration camps and close the border, escalate tensions with China even if we sabotage renewable energy transition, and tonight I'll make a speech where I lie through my teeth without stuttering or losing my train of thought"?
Well, this may be controversial, but, in my opinion the torch needs to be handed down to the next generation of CIA directors' children, Star Trek: The Next Generation. These youngsters might just have both the patriotism and cognitive abilities to keep the child killing machine well-oiled. Slava Amerkani!
If we're stuck in a two-party system and people consistently vote for democrats despite not being democrats themselves simply because they think it's the "lesser evil" of effectively two options, why should these people's opinion about which democratic candidate is available not matter?
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Political violence is NEVER okay