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>Wilhelm Reich and Antonio Gramsci noted that a cultural revolution of sorts
>has to take place in order for working class people to accept the idea of
>income equality. In fact, Mao carried this out and did away with things
>such as foot-binding for women, because he realized that people who accept
>the tradition of women being purposefully crippled in order to limit their
>movement, are more bound to reject communism (or anarchism) and embrace
>authoritarian, hierarchical structures
A small point. Peasant women in China were not subject to footbinding. That was for the mandarin and aristocratic classes. Peasants couldn't afford to lose the labor of women.
jks
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