An Interesting Take on BLM

[FireIceTalon]

It has everything to do with who works more and harder.

So, if we follow this to its logical conclusion....men work harder than women, according to you. Not only are you a chauvinist and sexist scumbag extraordinaire, but you do a terrible job of trying to hide the fact. SMH.

Kandrathe's theory that women are paid less for taking time off to have children just lends itself to the fact, or is just a nicer way of saying, that the proletarian family is the necessary economic unit to the reproduction of capitalist social relations, and therefore women are obliged to fulfill the wife/mother role in order to ensure the system has a steady supply of labor power. It is just another of capitalism's contradictions: The bourgeois needs women for the reproductive role to produce the next generation of workers so capitalist society can continue, and yet, because many women cannot work (or can only do limited kinds or amounts of work) during much of their pregnancy, this means capitalists will be unable to extract the same amount of profit from them. These two things are not compatible, and it is this contradictory premise in which the oppression and discrimination of women in capitalist society is structured upon (including paying them less); in conjunction with male privilege that have been carried over from prior systems of class oppression. Then, the capitalists can just say men work harder as an ideological backdrop to justify paying women less. The strange thing is, by reproducing the next generation of wage slaves, women are in a sense, producing a very important form of value for the capitalist - yet don't even want to pay them for THAT. That's because they cannot directly make a profit off that child until he or she is of age to enter the workforce, and therefore pregnancy and childbirth are treated/viewed as only a necessity (but viewed by the capitalist as burdensome to profit, at least in the short-term) for producing the next generation of cogs in the machine - and nothing more - to eventually be disposed of when they can no longer generate enough profit.