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[–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

There's a reason the right wing is always trying to ban birth control/abortion, push those trashy '16 and pregnant' shows, complain about teen pregnancy rates being down, want to legalize child marriage and child labor. Kids are just one way that capitalism traps you into being dependent on the system and desperate. For those in the US health insurance is another. And over-reliance on cars. They love to put a recurring cost on anything that's necessary to maintaining your survival/quality of life, because then you're dependent on perpetuating the system.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    The political economy is granted without reservation. The disagreement is about sufficiency rather than accuracy. Historical materialism addresses how existing beings are organised and governed. The antinatalist question is at the level of ontology: whether beings should be instantiated at all. Take the best outcome the Marxist project could deliver: no exploitation, equitable distribution, genuine flourishing. Everyone born into it would still suffer biological degradation, lose the people they love, die, and have been created without their consent. The urgency of the Marxist critique rests on the same recognition that drives antinatalism: beings are harmed by conditions imposed on them without consent. Antinatalism extends that recognition one step further, from political organisation to biological instantiation.

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