The birth strike

While a capitalist who invests in anything that produces income is entitled to a return on investment, women who produced the entire work force have received none. – Me

I was looking recently at what I wrote years ago in Binding Chaos and on my blog about women’s unpaid labour. Politically, almost nothing has improved in the over a decade since Binding Chaos was published and many things have worsened. Socially, the fallout from this lack of action is profound and it will be felt politically from this point forward. In reviewing all the groups I worked with so long ago, it is the movements around unpaid women’s labour that have increasingly expanded and grown in influence. I have talked a bit here about this unrecognized, unpaid labour and the social repercussions of women walking out of slavery. This month let’s look at motherhood, specifically baby production. Or, as many politicians are terming it, a strike that will lead to human extinction.

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The message seems obvious. Under the trade economy, people are commodity and women are the means of production of that commodity. The trade economy treats children as a product. It does not incentivize creating society. If women do not feel safe, if parents do not feel safe, if people do not feel safe, they will not reproduce. That has always been the case.

The root of society, the first dependence, is created when a woman gives birth to a child. The nature of society depends on how it is built out from that core, whether all share in responsibility for the first and all other dependencies or whether the strongest are pulled away to isolate caregivers and commodify dependency. – Also Me 

This is a contagious strike with extreme social repercussions and it is causing and will cause many power shifts involving immigration, labour, aging, housing, communities, health and much much more. There are many different variants in different parts of the world. The smallest unit of society is having a revolution and the impacts will go far beyond the shifting borders of state wars we are used to.

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