I'm down with the dictatorship of the proletariat, but fuck off if you're coming for my ketamine, 2CB, DMT, salvia, cannabis, etc. Everything I've read into and history's precedent tells me it's a pretty clear ban on everything.

And no lazy, bullshit responses like, "Well if we're in a communist utopia, I think you'll find there will be no need to take mind-altering substances, which clearly only exclusively exist as a response to captitalism."

Curiosity, spirituality, and exploring the unknown will exist in perpetuity. I just wonder what limitations will be impressed upon society.

  • volkvulture [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    sex work under capitalism & removed from socially necessary/productive & even reproductive intent very quickly becomes hyperexploitative, even if the individual sex worker claims to "enjoy" or find "fulfillment" from this work. self-exploitation is still exploitation

    subjugation & exploitation often have little to do with workers' subjective "feeling" about their own line of work. and patting the upper middle class youth on the back who moonlight as dancers or sugar babies isn't even scratching the surface of prostitution's real connection to social dissolution & biting poverty in socioeconomically blighted areas.

    sex work through state regulated channels or within larger intentional frameworks of social empowerment & shared destiny would be far more befitting of that idealized future. USSR approached this from many different angles, including "socializing" & regulating sex work for the poorest "victims". Additionally, explicit laws forbidding prostitution weren't added to Soviet legal codes until 1987, well into pro-capitalist Perestroika period