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===Marxist failure to provide solutions=== | ===Marxist failure to provide solutions=== | ||
The book insinuates that meritocracy in a post-capitalist society would end bartering for sex in favor some some amorphous direct affection. | The book insinuates that meritocracy in a post-capitalist society would end bartering for sex in favor some some amorphous direct affection. | ||
From the books conclusion: | |||
"for we cannot but think that the final results of this war—the fruit of the present system of production and distribution—will be the utter collapse of the system itself—making way for a New Society wherein the only aristocracy shall be that of Labor and of Merit. [...] What we may anticipate about the adjustment of sexual relations after the impending downfall of capitalist production is mainly of a negative nature and mostly confined to elements that will disappear. But what will be added? That will be decided after a new generation has come to maturity: a race of men who never in their lives have had any occasion for buying with money or other economic means of power the surrender of a woman; a race of women who have never had any occasion for surrendering to any man for any other reason but love, or for refusing to surrender to their lover from fear of economic consequences." | |||
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. | |||
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