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>oh lord, i didn't say it's *never* about gender or race, i said that these
>things are analytically distinct. the extraction of surplus from workers
>does work more smoothly because of racism and sexism. but i think racism
>and sexism in terms of an oppressive division of labor and oppressive
>*social relations* of production and "reproduction* can operate quite
>separately -- come to have a life of their own.
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>one of the things i detest about marxist economic theorizing is that it
>seems to claim that the work of reproducing labor--traditionally women's
>unpaid household labor--isn't to be understood in the same way as the
>relationship between capitalists and workers. and, as society evolves and
>more and more men start doing their share of labor in the home while the
>rest becomes "socialized" ...
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>kelley
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