Women As Sex Vendors (book): Difference between revisions

On this view, rather than revolutionary harbingers of a brave new world of gender equality, feminists, their revolutionary self-image notwithstanding, were little more than 'useful idiots' unwittingly serving the interests of their own (and their husbands) capitalist oppressors. Feminism is thus a form of what Marxists typically term ‘false consciousness’.

The book insinuates that meritocracy in a post-capitalist society would end bartering for sex in favor some some amorphous direct affection.  Here, in proposing solutions to (what are deemed unwanted) sexual barter, we see a flaw in Marxist theory to remain consistent, namely because of it's overly-materialist focus.  It does not see social status and social hierarchy as a means of crude barter for sex (after all any non-capitalist hierarchy must be just right? /sarcasm), nor does it seem to acknowledge the possibility of social status being a barter for sex at all.