[lbo-talk] Marriage and Prostitution

[Mike Ballard]

Unions allow workers to organize and gives them a means to make their 
condition as good as possible within Capitalism, but it does not allow 
anyone to change the fundamentally alienating and prostituting nature 
of this system.

Joanna

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Which, I might add, is based firmly on top-down power.  The employer
and employee enter in to either a consensual or a coerced social
relation.  The wage-slave is bound by contract recognized by the State.

 The  right-wing perspective is that the relationship is consensual. 
The left says that it is a coercive relation based on the dominance of
the rich and the submission of the poor.  The left says that the
workers need unions to resist total rule by fiat of the employing
class.  The right says that unions are unnecssary "bureaucratic"
obstructions to the liberty of individuals to buy and sell whatever
they like in the free market.

Many marriages reflect this social relation of dominance and
submission, with the worker making a wage-slave of the spouse.    

Regards,
Mike B)  

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