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  • Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.mltoAsk Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•What is your single most right-wing view?
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    3 days ago

    I’m not sure this would end up counting as a right wing view because of the reason behind the viewpoint, But many of my liberal associates a oppose my views on this subject, and many of my conservative associates agree, even if for the wrong reasons, so I may as well say my piece.

    Prostitution and sex work in general, while it shouldn’t be outright banned, as that would very quickly lead to a super exploitative black market, is generally a bad thing and should atleast be extremely heavily regulated, to the point where it ideally whithers away.

    The reason for this is that I don’t believe consent can really ever exist where coercion is present. Alongside this, where sexual activity occurs without the presence of consent, we call this rape. To my understanding, this is the same reasoning why we don’t consider child sexual abuse victims to have consented regardless of whether they said yes to the activity, specifically because of the problem around coercion.

    As Marxists, we generally understand that, when you perform labour in return for income, if you end up relying on that income to survive, as most of us do as proletarians, that opens you up to economic coercion, as if you want to stop performing the labour you’re paid to do, you face losing that income and risk losing vital means of survival such as your healthcare, your home, access to food, and more. This risk often coerces us into continuing to perform labour we aren’t satisfied with.

    Now when it comes to prostitution, that equation moves from having to manufacture something or enter data to a spreadsheet or risk sleeping on the streets all the way to placing yourself in a particularly vulnerable position and carry out whatever sexual activity or risk starvation.

    Now I do get some people just do it for fun, and when that’s the case, I couldn’t care less if you just go to a swingers club instead. But when there’s a transaction involved, that can all too easily become coercion, and thus, at least in my book, rape.

    Now admittedly, I haven’t spoken to many sex workers, so I may be completely wrong in my assumptions about how this industry works. But I do believe if any regulation gets drafted in regards to the sex industry, it must interview a wide range of sex workers and make extensive efforts to address their concerns along with offering upskilling opportunities and pathways into other careers ready and open for anyone who wants to.

  • Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.mltoAsk Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•Which jobs are most useful for the revolution?
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    3 days ago

    I would say that if you want a profession that would make you more useful when the revolution comes, try and get into a career that is typically dominated by already wealthy asset owners.

    Unfortunately, as these professions usually expect you to be making your primary income from said assets, this would likely mean relatively low salaries and lots of unpaid work, and serving bourgeois interests a lot of the time. However, having experience in things like civil service, economics, etc while being loyal to the cause would make you indispensable.

    I say this because one of the common things I’ve come across in my research, especially with that of Cuba, is that once the socialists and communists finally managed to achieve and control state power, they’ve often had to make heavy compromises starting out in order to utilize typically unloyal actors from the recently disposed regime to handle running the new governnent, atleast for the first few years, because they were the only ones with experience in doing such tasks.

  • Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.mltoFuturology@futurology.today•Universal Basic Income: Costs, Critiques, and Future SolutionsEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Here’s the thing I don’t like about UBI though.

    If the govt pays out, say 500 bucks every week into my account as part of a UBI payment, what stops landlords from just increasing their rent, or supermarkets and local utility monopolies from raising their prices just because they can?

    At that point, you’re back to square one, and still under threat of being homeless and starving just because you’ve been priced out of the market. Additionally, UBI will only exacerbate the problem of wealth inequality, as while poorer families will be using the payments to pay for necessities they need to survive, wealthier families who straight up don’t need the extra help will just use it to accumulate and horde more assets, on top of receiving increased profits from all the poorer families putting their entire UBI payments towards affording their increased prices.

    What we should be doing instead, is providing universal basic services. Free housing, food, water, electricity, transport, healthcare, education, guaranteed work, and so on. Everything you need to live a basic subsistence, provided at little to no cost to everyone who needs it with no strings attached. From there, if you want additional luxuries like a bigger house, vacations abroad, etc, then you would need to work, but you won’t be fucked if there happens to be no work going around.

  • Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Fuck Tankies
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    1 month ago

    Firstly, how do you consider China to be a fascist nation?

    Secondly, When since 1990 did “tankies” uncritically support Russia?

    Thirdly, assuming you manage to establish even a remotely socialist government, how would you go about ensuring its survival against embargoes, espionage, invasion, counterrevolution, etc without ending up like Allende or Lumumba?

    Fourthly, what the hell even is that graphic? Assuming you’re supposed to overlay the political compass on top (which is a poorly designed and arbitrary graph that doesn’t have room for nuance anyway), What right wing economic arguments do you think we promote? Because I’m pretty sure the abolition of private property isn’t something Friedman, let alone Hitler, particularly agreed with.

  • Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Fuck Tankies
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    1 month ago

    Fuck right off with this infighting and division bullshit you’re pushing. What does this serve to achieve other than divide the left and prevent it from organising and taking action?

    The only reason “tankies” are “authoritarian” (two words that have lost any meaning at this point), is because after seeing repeated examples throughout history where liberal socialist movements have fallen and collapsed to capitalist backed fascist militias and infiltration, they are willing to do what it takes to ensure the socialist state lasts long enough against counterrevolution to begin building the foundations for a truly free socialist society.

    Even if that means a few dead monarchs, billionaires, and fascists along the way, then I have no objection against those whom you call “tankies”.