ofriceandruin [none/use name]

Marx also had financial support… from Engels. So is it hard to ask for societal support?

Also, Marx wasn’t the ideal father, and I imagine if you were living back then you’d be doing this weird shaming that you’re doing now, ironically.

Sorry that this is such a struggle session for you. Clearly I haven’t done the proper hermeneutics on engels and marx to be able to come to the conclusion that if someone doesn’t want a child that they should be forced to pay support when it’s not only concievable, but doable right now to have a system of universal support in place.

I don’t even know what you’re saying tbh.

If you don’t think that our current judicial system is heavily patriarchal then I don’t even know what to say…

gay: somehow tries to use Engels to argue that state imposed perpetuation of a partiarchal system is justified because… reasons?

What even are material conditions

Precisely, which is why I’m proposing something to replace our current system, i.e. make the material conditions better for all parties.

Any kind of greater structural analysis is always “useless to the topic at hand” if the initial framing is narrow. So sorry if I’m trying to contextualize something within a bigger framework. It’s not like any other people have done that before…