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What do Marxists think … about housework?
Socialists have advanced a number of ideas about work conducted in the home, most of which is done by women. The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY explores some of these theories
The recent calls to strip Michelle Mone of her peerage after she was caught scamming the public for £122 million should reinvigorate the longstanding progressive demand to completely abolish the entire undemocratic, corrupt relic, writes ELLIOT TONG
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IT’S a fair bet that some Marxists don’t think about it at all, and some that do, don’t think it’s a matter for serious discussion. But it is!
Marx himself saw housework as an unfortunate necessity, famously declaring that it was “petty, stultifying and degrading.” As a guess he didn’t do too much of it.
Engels argued that in the earliest societies, sexual divisions of labour were not inherently oppressive.
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