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?

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I might be taking the analogy of organic systems too far - but the stuff that seems to “just happen” as a natural result of certain kinds of organization and how firmly tilted in the self defense of the system certainly feels like it doesn’t require conscious effort. Whether one brings panpsychism into things and wants to read the metaphor literally, or not, is a step beyond the point.

      I don't know anything about panpsychism, but societies as self-stabilizing systems are a fairly common idea for any sociologist influenced by Marxism. there's entire books with circuitboard-like diagrams for that and walls of text that make Deleuze and Guattari look like a light novel. system theory and all that jazz. i never looked deeply into that because it's so incredibly dry and information-dense.

      if the material point 2 weren’t true, would the ideological points 1 and 3 exist in the form they do?

      most likely as fringe views only. it would be extremely hard to mainstream them. sure, false consciousness always boils down to people acting against their very material needs, it's the very point of bourgeois ideology to make people do contradictory things that hurt their class interests. but such an absurdly self-damaging idea has to rest on a mountain of previously accquired false assumptions to be believed. when we're talking really egregious stuff like "let the state interfere with what people do in their bedroom" or "people should surrender bodily autonomy to religious zealots", then yes, i'm assuming that it either aligns with the interests of these people or they can ignore it somehow, otherwise you couldn't on-board them for this kind of obscene overreach.