Comment by dragonwriter
9 days ago
> The left wing constantly says “we started letting women work”.
I’ve literally never seen anyone on the left (and rarely even the liberal capitalist center-right) say that. I’ve seen people on the hard right, when complaining, use that framing, though.
And, look, here its part of a complaint glorifying the defects of the capitalist-patriarchal family and whining that more equal treatment of women in the economic sphere hurt the “family unit” rather than recognizing that capitalism wrecks the family unit and greater equality for women just reduces the particular systematic of oppression of women within the capitalist-patriarchal system, but neither cures nor causes the damage to the family unit that comes from capitalism.
You’re of course free to pretend to be unaware of embarrassing left wing rhetoric. But the idea that capitalism hurt the family unit doesn’t really square with reality. The first order of Marxism is the explicit destruction of the family unit in favor of “chosen family” and the state.