Haha those evil soviets with their full guaranteed employment with leave and childcare. Dumb evil soviets charging a capped 3 rubles for rent and utilities when they should have given a landlord the freedom to charge 3000 rubles
Childcare did take care of the kids while the wife is at home. But guess who took care of them after that and who took care of the household in addition to working. This is one of the reasons I keep on rambling that in addition to socialism we need to put extra effort for the cultural change necessary for true liberation of women, people of colour and LGBTQ+ people. A nominally communist regime can be reactionary and can still relegate certain people to a shittier position.
Absolutely agree, more equitable division of labor in the home is important, also I like the transitional idea of the husband having to pay his wife for her surplus labor (I think China recently had a case where a woman successfully got divorce settlement for unpaid labor done during the course of the marriage).
No one ever said that stage one/lower communism/socialism would solve all the problems, the idea is just that without the bourgeois dictatorship and with more democratic political-economy, those contradictions will become easier to spot and solve. Especially with universal suffrage and workplace democracy, allowing for dissident/liberation groups to integrate with the worker's state is important for solving those problems.
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Haha those evil soviets with their full guaranteed employment with leave and childcare. Dumb evil soviets charging a capped 3 rubles for rent and utilities when they should have given a landlord the freedom to charge 3000 rubles
True freedom has been achieved :amerikkka-clap:
Childcare did take care of the kids while the wife is at home. But guess who took care of them after that and who took care of the household in addition to working. This is one of the reasons I keep on rambling that in addition to socialism we need to put extra effort for the cultural change necessary for true liberation of women, people of colour and LGBTQ+ people. A nominally communist regime can be reactionary and can still relegate certain people to a shittier position.
Absolutely agree, more equitable division of labor in the home is important, also I like the transitional idea of the husband having to pay his wife for her surplus labor (I think China recently had a case where a woman successfully got divorce settlement for unpaid labor done during the course of the marriage).
No one ever said that stage one/lower communism/socialism would solve all the problems, the idea is just that without the bourgeois dictatorship and with more democratic political-economy, those contradictions will become easier to spot and solve. Especially with universal suffrage and workplace democracy, allowing for dissident/liberation groups to integrate with the worker's state is important for solving those problems.
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