[lbo-talk] Breast milk ice cream...

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Sat Feb 26 10:37:05 PST 2011


----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Catron" <jncatron at gmail.com>

Now, in a socialist society you'd say breast milk is for babies.

Well, yeah, but it's not like drinking the milk of a cow makes any more sense!

Cows = women?


> But under capitalism, we're basically going to turn poor women into cows
>

I think you've got this part backwards. Cows have been producing milk for humans for millennia, but that doesn't mean it makes sense. And if adults insist on consuming something more appropriate for infants, why not at least get it from the right species?

I obviously have no idea how the production of milk compares with wage labor as a means of extracting money from the capitalists. But what's shocking about someone doing one rather than the other?

------- It's all context. I have this fight regularly on LBO w respect to prostitution. Some saying it's just another example of selling your labor power. Nice abstraction; but there's difference between making love and having sex for money; there's a difference between breast-feeding a hungry baby and selling your breast milk so some yuppie can have a thrill.

J



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