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The difference with wage labor is your body isn't the commodity, your time/labor is being traded to create a value in a commodity.
“The only real freedom in prostitution is the freedom for bourgeois men to access the bodies of proletarian women ” - Esperanza Fonseca
“Arguing that women have the right to sell their bodies is an attempt to hide the argument that men have the right to buy women ” - Françoise Hériter [ey-ri-tay]
“Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore” - Andrea Dworkin
“prostitution and gambling were opposed [by revolutionaries] not because of the cheap moralism of the petit-bourgeois concerned about the impurity of such acts but because they took advantage of working-class and surplus population poverty by selling people into sexual slavery and debt.” - Rosa Janis
“This demoralization arises from the fact that the open flaunting of the cash nexus does not spell freedom for the woman who sells her sexual services.” - Engels
“The revolutionary feminist left needs to fight to redefine the meaning of “solidarity with sex workers” as pro-worker, anti-industry.“ - Esperanza Fonseca
By Esperanza Fonseca
“JOHNS AND PIMPS ARE CLASS ENEMIES. ABOLITION NOW.”
By Alexandra Kollontai