Re: The Institution of Prostitution under capitalism maintainsthe sexist/class/racist structure of capitalism, and has particularyadditional effects

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mine:

>I know. That is why I posted contradictory articles, although I share some of
>the authors views about the "traumatic and violent effects of prostitution"
>on women. That is the only credit I give to them.  What they lack is that
>they do *not*  look at the class/ethnic/race composition of women forced into
>sex industry in the countries they studied. With that said, they overlook to
>look at "capitalism as political economy" and  its varying effects on
>different types of women . For example, they study US on the same ground as
>they study Turkey.  This is evidently  bullshit.

You see, Mine, these two attitudes are not unrelated.  Bourgeois
feminists think of prostitution as especially bad _because_ they
don't think of wage labor in general as in need of abolition through
the transition to socialism.  They'd rather see working-class women
"rehabilitated" into more respectable lines of work (even if
respectable lines of work pay less than sex work), perhaps to become
maids & clean their toilets or to become sweatshop workers & sew
their clothes.

>Who argued this? IT IS *NOT* THE OCCUPATION OF WOMEN OR INDIVIDUAL
>PROSTITUTES THAT WE ARE CRITICIZING. IT IS THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM THAT FORCES
>WOMEN INTO THIS OCCUPATION! THIS OCCUPATION ITSELF IS A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM,
>WHICH LIES AT THE ROOT OF THE SEXIST AND RACIST CAPITALIST ORDER.

No need to shout, I hear you, but even if _you_ don't conflate the
two, _bourgeois feminists & capitalist states do_, and that's the
problem.  Attacks on drug dealings become attacks on drug users,
attacks upon prostitution become attacks upon prostitutes, and
attacks upon smuggling of illegal immigrants become attacks upon
illegal immigrants, under capitalism.

Yoshie