why did the ruling class do this? i have vague ideas but not sure what is the actually correct analysis

  1. jesus

republican people with power actually believe the crap they say and/or know their voters do, so they genuinely just dont want abortions to happen because jesus

  1. class warfare

millennials arent having enough babies to support the labour pool + people with children make for better cogs, since they are less likely to stir shit and cause problems for their employers/landlords as they will feel they have more to risk

  1. fascist state

hearing stories from people reporting on their neighbours in texas, its about creating a fascist panopticon with people increasingly policing themselves and everyone they interact with across the country, with more things to police about each other to be added in the future

is it one of these, or a mix, or something else, or is it pointless to even search for the "correct" analysis here?

  • bananon [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Capitalists use the right like guard dogs to push for anti-labor policies. Sometimes the capitalists throw in anti-social policies as a bone to keep the right content, because at the end of the day it won’t affect the capitalists. This relationship works most of the time because even if a righter isn’t a capitalist themselves, oftentimes their politics overlap enough.

    However, the right is only a sustainable guard dog so long as it’s leash is short, but in order to be an effective guard dog it’s power must increase (contradiction :isaac-pog:). Eventually the right becomes so powerful that they push through policies that are so short-sighted or backwards that they ultimately hurt capitalists, even if they increase capitalists wealth in the short-term. That is the inherent unsustainable nature of fascism.

    So anti-abortion is one of these anti-social policies that the right has pushed through after amassing enough power by being the guard dog of Capital. It’s not something that directly benefits the capitalists, and will probably actually hurt them in the long term, but it is something that benefits the fascists that benefit the capitalists. We got to this point because the fascists’ leash has gotten too long.