She was on to something. I've had more love and kindness shown to me from complete strangers than my entire family combined, who live to spite me. I keep telling my mom that people are generally good, it's what's got us living in the modern age, it's just that capitalism keeps the good people from sticking together.
So there is this comic where a boss yells at his employee who then yells at his wife and so on. I think capitalism is basically that. You get some sand kicked in your face and then you want to do the same to others. That when education is not liberating the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.
I think families haven't always been like this but have been structured in a way to support capitalism. Instead of taking those angers or resentments and uniting with others it allows this kind of abuse to take place to dispel the angry at what it deems as acceptable targets.
I might be overreaching but if domestic abuse and traumas like this were truly important to the powers that be then we would have solved them by now. I'm reminded of ubi experiments where money was given and shit got better for everyone. Of course this was scrapped because of the pigs in charge we can't have anything nice.
Domestic abuse and trauma are like baked into capitalism and is what keeps us basically perpetuating this cycle.
Yeah that's my thinking. I think with this part meant more how this system prioritizes different things from what we do. It's a mistake to say capitalism does anything unintentionally, everything that happens helps it. I might be speaking out of my ass since I've no idea how domestic abuse operated under USSR or Cuba but I imagine in countries with a better safety net and resources for people there might be less of it. It would also be dealt with differently I think.