Communism

[joanna bujes]

At 07:07 PM 06/28/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 06/28/2002 1:14:29 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
>joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com writes:
>
>
> > Domestic abuse rises with lost jobs,
> > evictions, and want.
> >
>
>Actually, the data shows that domestic abuse is pretty constant in all
>socioeconomic groups.  This does not, however, excuse the link between
>capitalism and violence.  "Anomie" or social alienation as a byproduct of the
>economic system effects both the rich and the poor.  Kind of a scientific way
>of saying what Friere and others say: that the oppressors are themselves
>harmed by their own oppression.

I didn't say domestic violence varied with income level, I said that when 
this income drops, domestic violence rises. So my argument is restricted to 
within a socio-economic group. We're in agreement about the question of 
alienation.

Joanna