>>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
guh.
kelley