Capitalism Hits Home: Listen Up Leftists, There's a Class Revolution in the Household - Part 1

[@FourtyParsecs]

HINT: increase to 1.25x speed and there is no degradation of quality.

[@MDP1702]

Even 1.5 is fine

[@dosmundos3830]

i shouda read comments instead of googling while i listened lol

[@GodofVengence]

Not all heroes wear capes.

[@TimBradleyFromOz]

So glad I saw this early in the piece - much better.

[@ACCELERATED_VIDEOS]

I binge watch Democracy At Work with closed captions at 3.5x to 5x speed with "Video Speed Controller" chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk

[@garycurtis5135]

A great breakdown of the history of the "golden era" of the middle class. Great job Harriet, looking forward to the second half.

[@danielquinn2996]

Yes it’s called wiping out the lower class and making the upper class richer. That’s it

[@SereneVoice1]

This is the most accurate and insightful look at what I experienced I have ever read. It is cathartic.

[@GoodStarfish]

Awesome. Thanks for your work, Harriet.

[@bhavifoxglove1319]

Thank you very much, Dr. Fraad.

[@flash_flood_area]

Very interesting, Dr Fraad. One thing I didn't know was that about Steinem and the CIA. In that context, her awful 2016 remarks make more sense. The rest of your analysis jibes with my personal observations, having come from a very old fashioned patriarchal family, originally. That experience gave me a window onto an earlier time, while a young person in the latter half of the 20th century. The enormous changes the American family has gone through are astonishing. My kids are male and female, millennial and zoomer. There's been a tectonic shift from the 20th century to now. Thank you for putting the various drivers of that shift into perspective.

[@camillevolpone270]

Thank you, nice to see someone older like me, sees the truth of what's happened the last 40 years.

[@ChrisWhalenCPA]

Fantastic non-partisan historical analysis. Thanks very much.

[@jfangx]

I don't care about labels if what's being said is true.

[@mhikl4484]

​@Science not religion Come on Snr, the truth is not to be spoken round this woman and her tired, copied old story. My mum and dad raised six children, two that were a set of twins, born 11 months after the fourth child. The earlier sibling were all 18 months between. Talk about mistakes! Thank heavens for the birth control pill that came round the end of the last births. There was another family in our town that consisted of 16 children. I don't think any family-couple in there right minds planned on having 16 children. Horny had its drawbacks, back then.

[@stevemartin4249]

I have lived in neo-liberal Japan Inc. for 36 years, and when I heard the first couple of minutes, I had to make sure I wasn't listening to a breakdown of the demographics here, and the problems that will bring. The right-wing ruling LDP appears to have just won another supermajority in the upper and lower house. You will not see anything in the form of real labor unions here or labor strikes. To help triangulate the future of America, look at Japan as the Canary in the Coal Mine.

[@jefffarmer5785]

This Lady is ENTIRELY correct-!!! 👍

[@mhikl4484]

And the male take on history is that supporting a woman and children was terrible costly to his freedom and finances. And that is why a prenup is necessary for both parties. Neither needs to be taken to the cleaners. In my scenario, our three boys chose to move in with me once they became teenagers and were allowed to make/demand their own choices.

[@art4freak795]

She is like everyone's world wised , well read and educated great auntie

[@oengusfearghas9608]

The failed State of Affairs here in the US is precisely why a significant portion of us are pushing to mimic a system similar to that used in Sweden among other parts of Europe. Unfortunately the only people that such a dramatic shift would hurt are the ones that have the vast majority of power and influence currently in the US. Due to that fact it's going to be something that will require quite the difficult fight.

[@jamesoquinn9168]

JC! These are always so heavily profound. Like a planet sized arrow pointing down at the top of my head and seeing letters 20 stories high, saying; "you are here". It's a bit unsettling. Im pretty sure with a very small amount of effort she could tell me what kind of cigarette I used to smoke, and what song is playing in my head right now.

[@edwardyang8254]

I've always felt that the women's movement really stems from women's decreasing interest in taking care of and educating children. They would rather go out to work for their boss or customers while either having no kids or hiring others to take care of their kids. Not to say it's good or bad, just a realistic observation that raising a family of 2 or more kids is more than a full time job, and to those who value it, its both critically important and extremely rewarding.

[@cyberblock7619]

The data is clear that most women live a more fullfilling life by having kids and a family rather thsn a carrerar. Its this new western twisted movement to brainwash women in to believing that carrear is the more important. Its destroying the family and ripping apart the fabric of of our society.

[@nobody_8_1]

Thank-you. Very informative and engaging. Particularly interesting was the comment on Sweden with respect to outsourcing; and Germany with respect to the steel workers; and the unions.

[@Michael-ei3vy]

I'm a 32 year old white male in the 1% (self made). I had my first child in 2017 via surrogacy and my second earlier this year. I chose to start a family as a single father and couldn't be more happy. A surrogate and 2 nanny's are much cheaper than potentially getting divorce raped or accused of something. I find it's best to just pay for sex when I want sex. Most women on dating sites are hooking on the side so if you ask how much you can usually get a price. Outside of the home I view women the same way I view other men, as competition. I prefer this new arrangement where everything is boiled down to a commodity. Full custody of the kids and no baby mama drama.

[@venusbeatnik]

As Voltaire is quoted as saying, "The comfort of the rich requires an abundant supply of the poor." When will people realize that slavery never ended, they just changed it from physical slavery where they had to clothe and feed their slaves to a more profitable ECONOMIC SLAVERY where keeping the masses desperately poor ensures their continued economic slavery.

[@matthewcotton19]

This was really really well done. Very informative. She also has a very calming voice and she is very precise with her details.

[@mildredmartinez8843]

Fantastic, illuminating. Thank you.

[@888Gypsy888]

There is a Class War to be exact: across the board.

[@anarchisttechsupport6644]

Except we're not fighting back.

[@Luvenia48]

@@anarchisttechsupport6644 , I get the impression some people are so afraid of the rich they would rather be a SERF and bow to the Rich rather than risk their anger. That is the real reason American Corporations took our jobs overseas, they wanted to teach us a lesson. They wanted us to do without long enough that when they decided to come back with a few jobs we would except ANY WAGE and NO BENEFITS. The sad part, they pretty much succeeded. We actually think we are in a GOOD, NO GREAT economy when the truth is people were better off in the 1970's.

[@philipberthiaume2314]

This is very informative.

[@augustday6]

loved this but did crank the playback speed. Yes, I would say this is valid perspective.

[@russellesimonetta3835]

Hey harriet i,m a fan now. A mans castle became a shack.

[@Cinetterose]

I was not expected to go to college. I educated myself after high school....but I think of how I wasted the best years of my life.

[@xdissonance8]

This is fascinating, I hadn't know so much of the class struggle of women and the household before now

[@chikaka2012]

I love the term “emotional labor” because that’s what it is. Even today, women are expected to provide this for both genders - free therapy in spite of working another job full time plus.

[@wayneplaisted9245]

There should be a wealth cap no one needs 154 billion in wealth and this would force other jobs to be created just like they were lost thru the Monopoly's. of Business .

[@alakhns]

Wow! You are soo... good/intelligent at explaining things!

[@whatta1501]

Thx, very educational

[@gdeiselable]

We need more historical videos like these

[@agatamagorzata6019]

How many Americans can afford three weeks vacations? like it is in Europe.

[@mindphysics1]

Excellent!

[@johntao6822]

Men "trapped with the support of...kids they don't even like any more," though, Harriet?

[@radthibidaeux8229]

This video very succinctly summarizes the current condition and state of mind of at least ONE middle-aged white male. The deterioration of our/my condition as you state roughly parallels the decline of our Nation. Coincidence? I'm going to go ahead and repost here something I said on another thread, the headline of which was: "Missing Men and the Future of Women/Future of Work." Here was my reply: (Original thread linked below). Had to post in response to this discussion about where all the men have gone: We are . . . obsolete. Our country does not need us. Our women do not want us. (Too old, too poor, too dumb, too whatever, just ask them, they have a list!) Our jobs were sent overseas, (along with our self-respect) and for the jobs that could not be exported ("skilled trades") they imported millions of low wage "migrants" to displace us. Well, the war is over. We "Prime Age" men have lost, we understand that and will no longer stand in the way of the capitalists/globalists and feminists who have decided that our "market value" is zero. Now we just fade away, waiting to die, and watching from the edges of society, we are ghosts usually only visible to each other. We know better than to apply for "entry-level" (too old or overqualified) jobs or to "chase" any woman, for we have nothing to offer them but love, loyalty, and devotion . . . and we know these things are of little value to today's "career" woman . . . most of them already have a cat for that. Most women consider only the top 20% of men as even being worthy to approach them, and are offended when an "unqualified" (the other 80%) man even speaks to them. Thus the #MGTOW movement, men are going their own way, and leaving society and #feminocracy behind. Some in society are beginning to miss us . . . to ask ironically "Where have all the good men gone?" and "Where have all the skilled workers gone?" The answer is . . . they're dead. You killed them, you devalued them as men and citizens completely to zero and beyond, until there was nothing left to bind them to society, and now you ask: "Where are they?" kzbin.info/www/bejne/fojWdpd-o8SiY7c

[@BigHenFor]

Self Pity isn't attractive. Why you can't run, walk. When you can't walk, crawl. If you can't crawl, them do something. Claim back your agency. Start punching up instead of down or sideways. Resist for Goodness sake.

[@radthibidaeux8229]

@@BigHenFor Let me guess . . . I should "Just Do It?" Got any other USELESS cliches to puke up on this electronic page to palliate yourself? Sweetheart, I wrote the BOOK on "Resistance." Have you read it? Sorry, I missed YOUR book . . . educate yourself, open your eyes, your Empire is NAKED, and you are ignorant, blind and apparently, oblivious. Troll bash complete.

[@samuelnutas999R]

Great information

[@DevinMacGregor]

It is call OFFSHORING when you outsource to an entity outside of your country. Outsourcing in of itself is turning over a dept or service to a 3rd party to manage. Outsourcing happens a LOT domestically and hardly gets talked about. I work for an international ITO. I work on the Disney account. This account has gone through three different companies and I came from another account with an ITO before coming to the Disney account. It is the same from one company to the next. You pay stalls. Pay raises are virtually nonexistent. Promotions? To what? They centralize everything and you lose skill sets plus there is no avenue to move up as management is consolidated.

[@thestreamoflife1124]

This applies to Canada too. In fact the western world. All very exact facts 💯💪

[@briseboy]

A little psychological opinion as to Steinem's behaviors is in order. She herself was influenced by the difficulties her mother had experienced when Gloria was young and living on the road with parents involved in buying and selling antiques in a mobile, traveling fashion. Her mother had difficulties in being considered for employment, and appears to have had some vulnerabilities to stress. While our experiences can become profoundly stressful, leading to temporary, periodic, or permanent responses leading to like incapacities,, the WAS and remains serious cultural suppression of women , tending to favor women who present on the less nurturing or more socio- and psychopathic scales, if one perceives gradations of belief systems and personalities. Gloria remained attracted to class differentiation, a dimension of perception not at all directly correlated with intelligence as it is perceived in the present. After all, malicious, socially manipulative, and malignant Machiavellian intelligence can occur at high levels, without social constraints. Males DO skew more toward greater psychopathy (at any social "level"), and women can, although are not now well-selected for their capacity to make prosocial community decisions. Gloria,, as mentioned, was attracted to social stratification even into late in her life. This is what I regard as a serious female vulnerability, although it is a strongly adaptive product of evolution of this and the two related social primate species.I'd suggest that it was an adaptation older than our own species, to which we tend to be differentially subject (humans remains largely a "wild" species with high allelic variation, and this is something for political thinkers to consider. Our brains, for example, show distinct lessening in size from 100 centuries ago, when the relationship to body size is corrected for. That reduction may very well be related to social stratification and oppression of the majority to enable a small minority freedoms to explore novel sensory stimulations no longer available to captive, narrowly educated or experienced thralls) Females also undergo different developmental adaptations, even late into life. The value of postmenopausal "grandmothers" as they are commonly called in cultures having less violent and patriarchal (VERY likely a response to increased violence resulting from habitat saturation and consequent territorial dispute) structures. Males and females DO have different qualities in specific memory, and neural/hormonal/cognitive responses to early child education and nurturance, each sex adding unique values to development - even at molecular, epigenetic, and hormonal levels. Children, it must be emphasized, become adults, and different experience leads to different areas of knowledge in each individual. While a democratic focus would seek to maximize individuals' learning, , their competence at EVERY developmental stage, we are, at present, suffering from such unbalanced and diminished opportunities for such development. This means that we must work, flawed as each of us are by cultural failures in development. A Psychiatrist would not indulge in blame (Steinem was a willing tool of blundering CIA operations mandates, and extremely flawed thinkers. This relationship was grasped by more cynical elements of both reactionary institutions like the US corporatocracy, the anti-equality antiwomen groups, confused and flawed patriarchalists of every type, including those violently disposed and functioning through overaroused resentment, rage, and hate), but might do best in making sure that human development can be slowed or stifled , and that consequently we are not equally grown-up in any specific situation. Feminism was an essential component of the work to restore the full developmental capacity in every human, even as it has been used as more and less cynical tools by those seeking to sustain unwarranted social differentiation in the human community. I would also hope that commenters exert effort in trying to make their public comments substantive in some useful way. TO do other, is itself to perpetuate ignorance, working counter to any value at all. Many could add commonsense, rather than themselves continuing the present internet practice of adding to nonsense.

[@bernardheathaway9146]

Thank you DaW!

[@cathyxOR]

This is what has fueled the 'Angry White Man' syndrome.

[@Oddity00]

Marge Simpson's mom tells a very sad tale

[@totonow6955]

Where rubber meets the road, thank you Dr. Fraud

[@vafkamat]

great video

[@donaldedward4951]

DEPENDS ON THE KIND OF MAN AND THE KIND OF WOMAN. As a generalization this was truer a generation and two or three generations ago.

[@Luvenia48]

I don’t know what she will talk about in part 2 but I do not she did not talk about this in part 1. Women who were a good little WIFE and MOTHER had NO job skills outside the home so if anything happened to her husband UNLESS he was rich was left with NO way to support herself and children. MOST men, even those with decent paying jobs could NOT support the family and save enough money to take care of the family he would leave behind if he died. We have close to 8 BILLION people on the planet so why should we keep having babies like RABBITS on STEROIDS? The answer is simple and so WRONG; the answer is CAPITALISM depends on CONSTANT growth, growth so the One Percent can make MORE along with their shareholders. It is our MONETARY system destroying nations. It is the GAP between the rich and everyone else that has destroyed NATIONS.

[@tinoyb9294]

You absolutely nailed it!!! I've been saying capitalism depends on growth for years. It's so good to see someone else understands.

[@Luvenia48]

@James Gravil, first let me ask you if it is fair to ask future generations to live in the world that WE created? OUR MONETARY system has to change and if it is we can still take care of our elderly, our children and our disabled, we CAN "IF" we stop giving everything we have to the RICH. Please take the time to read about all the problems humans face on this planet with almost 8 BILLION people. Check out how many people live without clean drinking water and enough food. DO NOT think it is not already happening right here in America because it is . In fact a HUGE number of Americans are drinking water that is UNSAFE and we have a LOT of FOOD DESERTS. Take the time to see how many Americans still live in conditions we would only think existed in third world countries. The ONLY reason we are told to have MORE babies is that CAPITALISM can ONLY exist with CONSTANT GROWTH, meaning there has to be the working Middle Class and the poor to support their every growing GREED. I don't know about you but I love children to much to make them all SACRIFICES to the MOST GREEDY and VILE people on the planet. Takes about 30 minutes to read all the reasons we should NOT be having more babies and 30 seconds to hear the lies about why we should.

[@Luvenia48]

@James Gravil, lower birth rates are not the problem but fuel for the real problems. We are all being sucked dry by a handful of people who can't possible spend all the money, live in all their homes or drive all their cars. YET they will never have enough. They are a kind of Vampire and profit off of every drop of blood shed in the wars for profit. I am glad you agree and will hopefully spread the word.

[@Cinetterose]

I was the full time Mother and never got paid for it of course...Today, I hardly can find any good men at all. Women are still second-hand citizens. Today, my own two grown boys show me disrespect because they saw my ex treating me with verbal abuse. Only at the end of his life, did he admit he should have appreciated me more for being a good Mother...At the end, my ex left me nothing in his will. It went to my youngest son and so I am seen as a child and have no power. I now live on SSI after suffering numerous panic attacks through the years because of the abuse.

[@d.b.cooper8178]

Capitalism is on life support and the wealthy capitalists are freaking out. For the last 10 years the federal reserve has been printing money like popping popcorn yet intrest rates remain at historic lowes. We have severely debased our currency. A correction is inevitable. We haven't begun to see how low the rich will go to prop up and protect a economic system that is failing to meet the needs of a vast majority. If we make a honest comparison to the social democracies of western Europe the American system doesn't fare well. People there have health care. They work 20 - 30 hours a week. They take vacations and enjoy life. Who are we kidding? It's getting harder and harder to defend the right wing shift we've made in America in the last 60 years or so. Ironically we still have a brainwashed cult of conservatives who insist we need to move our policies further right to ease the economic struggles of the masses in America.

[@tonchev88]

Europe not outsourcing? Why is then VW starting a new plant in Turkey? Have you heard of Beijing Benz? Also, it's been mentioned that wages dropped significantly but one of the reasons is missing. Guess what happens when you double the supply of a service? The price drops in half. So capitalists sold women all this BS about being financially independent, got them into the workforce and doubled their workforce supply. Not much negotiating power for workers now. But I suppose now women feel fulfilled in the offices and at the plants.

[@williamfalberg8702]

Almost all the world’s economic and political problems involve the Wall Street cartel of banking/industrial corporations considered “too big to fail” headquartered in the US because this is home to the world’s dominant military force. The US Constitution, therefore becomes the “kingpin” of a global financial empire. “Fictitious persons” with limited liability (i.e. corporations) now own the USA and its government, thus commanding the world’s mightiest military, which is used domestically to prevent the States from seceding, and generally to colonize weaker nations, starting with its host, the USA. The People have not yet been informed that we lost our sovereignty to the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913. Since then, instead, the top six media corporations have colluded to perpetuate the mythical American self-image of a constitutional democracy. Throw in the institutionalized lobbying of K street and a Supreme Court that owe their jobs to Wall Street and you have a global corpocracy that can’t be seen with the naked eye. The Founders had to fight a bloody Revolutionary War to win our right to incorporate as a nation - the USA. But then, for whatever reason, our Founders granted the greediest businessmen among them unrestricted corporate charters with enough money potential to compete with the constituent states, smaller sovereign nations, and eventually (1913) to buy out the US government itself. The only way the People can regain their sovereignty as a republic now is to reform the process by which we charter corporations. We can’t continue granting corporate charters to just any swindler that comes along without demanding a specific social value in return. The divine right of kings can no longer apply to fictitious entities just because they are “too big to fail”. We can't afford to privatize our Treasury to transnational banks anymore. Government must be held responsible only to the People, not “fictitious persons”. And banks, especially, must be held responsible to the government if we are ever to restore economic sanity to the world. It was a serious mistake in our Constitution to delegate the granting of corporate charters to the individual states. Who could have guessed such innocent little legal "entities" would grow up to become "fictitious persons" with all the constitutional rights and privileges of a real person (only not as liable nor as mortal). The swamp of corporate financial corruption that followed inevitably flooded the “western” world’s economic system. It is a swamp that can't be drained at this point because the Constitution doesn’t provide a legal "pump". The following 28th amendment is intended to install that "pump" so Congress can drain the corporate swamp of corruption and remediate past damage by revoking the charters of predatory corporations immediately. As a matter of political practicality we must now rely on the Article 5 option to do this, for which the electorate will need understanding and overwhelming solidarity to oppose an overwhelming barrage of globalcorpic media propaganda. An Article 5 Constitutional Convention is rapidly becoming our only option. Yanis Varoufakis is starting a movement in Europe to reign in their central banks, but with the US dollar’s hegemony over other world currencies, they won’t get enough support from the scattered “colonies” to succeed on their own, and it’s going to take a united global effort with US in the lead, because global corporate media will respond with bitter propaganda campaigns. It’s going to require someone like Yanis Varoufakis, a charismatic speaker, to educate Americans on how monetary systems work. That would be a start, and we must start somewhere. 28th Amendment: Corporations are not persons in any sense of the word and shall be granted only those rights and privileges that Congress deems necessary for the well-being of the People. Congress shall provide legislation defining the terms and conditions of corporate charters according to their purpose; which shall include, but are not limited to: 1, prohibitions against any corporation; a, owning another corporation, b, becoming economically indispensable or monopolistic, or c, otherwise distorting the general economy; 2, prohibitions against any form of interference in the affairs of; a, government, b, education, c, news media, or d, healthcare, and 3, provisions for; a, the auditing of standardized, current, and transparent account books, and b, the establishment of a state and municipal banking system c, civil and criminal penalties to be suffered by corporate executives for violation of the terms of a corporate charter.

[@karlhaynes3090]

1972 was also when women were legally considered to be peers to men. In 1972 women could be jurors, in trials across America.

[@cymonescurio]

i have a problem when she said "white sisters and black sisters" bc at the time shes speaking in, black women still worked FOR white women and white families soo...kinda racially tone deaf.

[@pnachtwey]

The problem is that people must compete with more people and machines. I don't see how socialism or communism can change that unless you simply remove to compete part. If you do that then innovation will stop.

[@spoonikle]

“men are like linoleum, lay’em down right and you can walk all over em for decades” Savage. The salt goes both ways - we where both used.

[@Micnify]

Insecurities! Marianne Williamson 2020! Mic'19

[@Nomad784]

If it was out sourcing of jobs that forced women into joining the work force. Then it would make sense that Swedish women (where she claims there was no out sourcing thanks to unions) are contented home makers and not career women which is not the case. Same goes for the rest of European women

[@Cinetterose]

Tell me, how much is a woman's work worth, when she stays home with her children and keeps the home running?

[@PoppONayaShelly]

American life has been horrible for men. Any man that can should seek a better life elsewhere if they have the opportunity to.

[@felicecentofanti5084]

capitalist state/state capitalist

[@joelleklaich5460]

Due process! I’m a woman and I’m sick of the lack of due process. I won’t listen to you again.

[@tanyadelaney8455]

It's more fiscally responsible not to get married simply for taxes alone.and then you add an instant gratification society we're cheating is far more accessible via the Internet and smartphones. It's made marriage an antiquated notion that has no benefits. You can leave someone without having to pay the lawyers for dissolution of marriage. And save that money for custody battles or child support battles. Whichever presents itself at the time of a relationship dissolution.

[@whatwherethere]

I expect that the speaker understands the class analysis better than I do but where is the power of the state in that analysis. Does the speaker propose that domestic violence was a normative position of the social construct of marriage. Not that it happened but that it was fundamental in the structure? Both genders where constrained by the social roles with few if any "men" given a path to domestic vocation. There has been a revolution of the comodification of all human interactions. This very analysis can not excape it. There are no longer normative obligations that are carried out by inclusion in a group.

[@sicnarf423]

Well said. - in solidarity

[@kevchard5214]

The thing you didn't address is the population in 1950 was 152.3 million but 2018 it is 329.06 million. People realize today we are over populated. This creates many more issues. I am 56 and never wanted kids or a wife because of over population but I still like practicing for kids.

[@jamesscott7657]

First time that the majority of women are single and the same goes for men.

[@Germoney2000]

...and in Amerika... same thing, different scape-goat. (just wait and see)

[@rakly3473]

Hey! Is that the mother of that woman?

[@TimBradleyFromOz]

Does highlighting identity dimensions (gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity) help or hurt the class movement at this point in time? I suspect it helps up to a point (recruitment), but thereafter it can hurt (factional in fighting). Nevertheless, a good talk.

[@suzannesauder657]

Disgusting

[@deathuponusalll]

👀

[@jeffreysegal2065]

Change from what to what? Positive or negative change? Develop your thesis before jumping into the discussion.

[@Marxist2]

Great historical analysis of women´s place in society. I enjoy this show, but please speak faster. It is so slow & annoying.

[@Alkis05]

That is why in this case I put the speed to 1.25x

[@sagesid7489]

Today if one wants enough income to support a household and someone to take care of the children and household tasks, I give you polygamy.

[@radthibidaeux8229]

You need two wages earners and one caregiver to sustain a household, if one wants a "family." This is by their design, not ours.

[@redalasch]

I think you exaggerate the positive situation in Europe in general and Sweden in particular

[@maxmeggeneder8935]

I so not think that she does. Sweden or Germany are capitalist class societies with many problems and Germany is an imperialist country too and the steal workers deal is an exception. But still,if you make a comparison to the US A,such is all she did,they seem like the garden of Eden.

[@redalasch]

Sure, but being Swedish I know that our country is one of the easier to shut down factories in.. Regardless what she sais. And our unions are not so militant, which is why reforms can be rolled back much faster here than in, say, France 🇫🇷

[@christopherhill6138]

I would be interested to hear your take on the mgtow movement..i enjoy.your insight..

[@rpgco.754]

Agreed. If she thinks the capitalistic economic impact is the driver for plunging marriage and birth rates in the entire western world, she does not understand what feminism has done to absolutely dissuade men from marriage, while at the same time created a land of whores, oops, I mean "strong empowered sexually free women". Women, who are becoming sadder, lonelier, and more medicated as they age, alone, through their 30's and 40's. Eventually realizing that no man of value wants to pay full price, at great financial risk, to support a woman, when there is a brand new fresh crop of 22 yr. olds each year, happy to "date" men in their 30s and 40s. it's a shit show. Thank Dog I found the RP 2 years ago, just in time to educate my 2 sons.

[@Dystisis]

In a society with families where the man worked and the woman was a "dependent" as you say (rather, she often had control over the household and raising of the young, aspects which the man did not know about), even (in a different way) before wage slavery -- you see this from the point of view that the man was unjustly given a superior position over the woman. But this is arbitrary, even from a Marxist point of view. From the Marxist point of view, we don't say that the working class has an unjustly superior position to the capitalist, even though the capitalist is a "dependent" -- the capitalist lives through the labour of the worker. The difference is that the capitalist actually mathematically *exploits* the labourer by extracting surplus value for the expansion of the company. The family, on the other hand, is -- or used to be -- a stable unit in which neither man nor woman was necessarily superior (except for the relative superiorities deriving from organic differences), and neither was exploited. This introduction of feminist rhetoric is completely arbitrary from a Marxist point of view, and it takes as its basis the existence of Market Society and derives the idea that everyone must be treated as a labourer from it, so that anyone who labours less must live a more wretched life. At the same time leftists supposedly wants to end capitalism, i.e. Market Society, on the basis of (correct) critiques thereof. This is completely contradictory.

[@seriouslypeople5860]

I love, love, love capitalism, but does your name have to be pronounced "fraud?" :(

[@quantifycrypto3898]

Ok soooooo... what does this mean for dudes ?

[@coolbeans6148]

@Kevin Tewey You're a fucking moron. Lets go socialist so we can all starve to death, great plan, dude...

[@tinkdnuos]

I'm not sure what's supposed to be insightful about this? What exactly did leftists fail to notice here?

[@a.s.6272]

#neoliberalism

[@JordanConley808]

The number 1 reason people are getting married less is monogamy is unnatural.

[@Chris-op7yt]

revolution lol. get real.

[@Illuminated7]

Will there ever be a Men’s right movement?

[@ShaedeReshka]

There is and it's horrible. The real men's rights movement is just called feminism.

[@user-zy4wv7yx1z]

Lol that's like saying will there ever be a straight parade. We dont need a men's right movement anymore than we need a white power movement.

[@ravinderyadav9581]

Is she just ignorant or a fool..??? Which country is doing better economically. .?Usa or Europe .. also you started talking king about marriage. And how this had to with no wages improvement. So why the phenomenon is happening to white guy in Europe and Australia....