𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔸𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕤𝕥
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“If the world born from my body oppressed me, I will not let that world exist.” Marxist feminism has always understood childbirth as political. Women don’t just produce children. We produce the next generation of workers, taxpayers and soldiers, mostly while doing enormous amounts of unpaid labour. Birth strikes aren’t new. Enslaved women resisted forced reproduction with contraception and abortion because their children became property and labour for slaveholders. European socialist women later openly called for a Gebärstreik, a birth strike. Why keep producing workers for factories and sons for imperial wars? What is the point of giving birth to soldiers just to watch them die? The Great Depression caused another kind of birth strike. Not organized. People just couldn’t afford children, so birth rates collapsed. Sound familiar? Today you have 4B explicitly rejecting marriage, sex, dating and childbirth with men. But the much bigger strike is economic. Women are expected to work full time, absorb pregnancy and childbirth, take the career hit, pay insane housing and childcare costs, then come home and do the unpaid second shift. So women are having fewer children. Call it feminism. Call it economics. Call it whatever you want. You cannot make motherhood economically punishing and then panic because women stop producing the next generation of workers and taxpayers. If the system needs our children that badly, maybe it should build a world worth having them in.
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