“Lumpenproletariat” is exactly the kind of idea an educated German theorist would come up with in the wreckage of the industrial revolution and it’s ridiculous to try to carry that notion forward to the age of cell phones and heavily armed maoist prostitutes and if anyone can’t understand that you should throw grass at them until they stop being dorks because they’re too far gone to touch it themselves.

Like ffs read even one anthro text about black market and grey market economies and stop treating The Man’s legal system like anything but a criminal organization.

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You don’t know what you’re talking about + there will be no prostitution under communism + lumpenprole isn’t an insult or moral indictment

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there will be no prostitution under communism

Unless you have a fairly specific definition of prostitution, some people will always be willing to exchange goods or labour for sex regardless of economic or political system.

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Prostitution isn’t the presence of negotiated sexual activity any more than capitalism is the presence of market activity. Exploitation is a defining characteristic of both.

Edit: Alexandra Kollantai already thoroughly explored this topic in 1921.

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I feel like that falls under a fairly specific definition of prostitution.

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this is why “sex work” leftists often lean on the “unpaid emotional and sexual labor in relationships” thing really hard

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This presupposes private property and an inherent bourgeois philosophy being instilled in the people. Utter nonsense.

Omg under communism small business prostitutes will exchange sex for food vouchers!!

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This presupposes private property

Personal property still exists under communism, as do scarce commodities. Barter is hardly bourgeois philosophy.

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Man, that’s going to make telling people I’m on a diet a whole lot more awkward.

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