One of the great changes of the past 50 years is the integration of women into patriarchal/hierarchical power structures at school and at work. Autonomous living and untaxed labour is scorned. Childcare is taken to be a low grade worthless activity when compared to working for the boss, which is regarded as so much more essential. Children only become worth something when the mother abandons them to perform taxable labour in order to pay for them, and a childcarer earns taxable money looking after the children. In this way the Economy is strengthened twice over, by the mother and by the child carer.
The woman who looks after her own children is an enemy of Power. The old fashioned way is simply not acceptable anymore. By taking herself and her children out of the Economy, an old fashioned autonomous woman is defying the State and Global Capitalism.
In the New Order women must be enslaved at all costs. After the colonisation of Europe, then America, then Africa and Asia, Power has to expand somewhere - for capitalism is the spread of Power and money the exchange of the tokens of Power - and how better than to colonise every aspect of life and turn it into a relationship of exchange and domination.
In Europe we see women giving up on the right to have children, living in a morass of loneliness, self-harm and self-pity, untrained and unwilling to assume the dignity of there foremothers.
In the Third World sweat shops abound. Women have deft fingers and are more easily intimidated. Far from being set free, women are subjected to sexual abuse, poverty and abortion. They are allowed nothing -no homes, no families. But even so, despite the politics of Power, the politics of Death, when people move to the cities they create new communities. Often, as in England during the Industrial Revolution, people form free evangelical Protestant churches to reconnect with the values of solidarity and giving, to escape from the swamp of despair that is the result of their empty and meaningless toil and enjoy relations of love and respect in their private lives.
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