It's a pretty straightforward take—parents have absolute power over their children and having absolute power over another human being is a priori oppressive. It's not even hot unless you think this would be the ideal model of existence even if there could be any other way.
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Yeah it's one of those silicon valley "professional clever person" takes where they're like "we should aggregate knowledge in a free at point of access location" and people are like "yes. You're describing libraries." He's saying "water is wet" in the form of a hot take.
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Replying to @SamHaft
Well, it's an outgrowth of one of his hobbyhorses, which is that children are a marginalized group and should be viewed as such through an intersectional lens (cf. the elderly), which is an idea leftists are typically unusually reticent to entertain
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Is that the case? I feel like child welfare legislation has always come from left / labor movements generally speaking - except in such cases as reactionary moral panic laws, which are never really *about* kids in the first place so much as using them as a rhetorical pawn.
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Replying to @SamHaft
Well, you start to see the cracks appear when people start talking about things like lowering the voting age or allowing children informed consent re: healthcare A lot of leftists think that sort of thing is garbage
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @SamHaft
Well okay let's Go There I don't think infants being routinely taken away from their biological parents and raised in state-run collective creches is likely to happen in the near future, and can see how any near term implementation of it is likely to be disastrous
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But I can see how a utopian future might have that as one of its core institutions and, in many ways, I think if we're serious about solving basic social problems it might be impossible to do so any other way But you can't even propose this without massive backlash
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The number of "leftists" even in radical spaces nowadays who will sign on to this vision of the future is tiny It's absolutely ingrained that this is a dystopian future, one of the worst things you can imagine the government doing, anti-human and anti-moral
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And yet it IS a foundational Marxist concept Engels didn't believe you could challenge the logic of kings, churches, landlords and bosses without challenging the logic of families and I believe his argument is sound It's just always a step too far for most people
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Probably because there's a disconnect in the discussion between 'We're talking about tomorrow/revolutionary work' and 'we're talking about an idyllic future society.' I buy the children's creche thing (helloooo, SMAC) for the far future, but not for today, not from the state.
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Well sure But the same thing applies to stuff like "abolish private property, abolish landlords" "...So you want everyone in the country's landlord to be Donald Trump"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
In a sense, though the capacity to eliminate landlordism exists without necessarily having to abolish the state first. [Georgism Intensifies]
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