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yo just reflecting on communist manifesto and ethics of care. one objection to EoC is that it just reinforces and valorizes oppressed values rather than subverting them. But i think a good counter example is how efforts to squeeze more profit out of the working class involved
lessening the distinctions between women and men so that women could do similar labor. then in the CM marx talks about how communism isnt about further ownership and oppression of women but that they should be free. In a way i read this as similar to ethics of care perspective,
that takes a working class perspective where the relationship between men and women have changed, and turned that into something that powerfully subverts the dominant and repressive status quo. i hope im being clear with what comparisons im drawing lol
but yeah i think thats an interesting way of looking at it, that like in the process of one system of oppression seeking to expand its power it can actually undermine the project of another system of oppression. Im sure there have been plenty of others who have written about this
and potentially it is captured within "contradictions" (which tbh have always been a little loose for me) but yeah i just think an intersectional analysis of this stuff would be super cool to read
oh also just wanted to note that i actually have no historical basis for thinking thats how things actually happened, i just dont know enough. it seems plausible? but i wouldnt commit myself to that reading