Simply because Diane Abbott has said it, anything that Diane Abbott says is bound to be shouted down by the people who don't even run their own party, never mind anything else. I am not necessarily referring to the Conservative Party.
But substance abuse and sexual exploitation are both integral to the capitalist system that has also destroyed the stockades of male employment, the economic basis of paternal authority in the family and in the wider community.
The Hackney roots of Blue Labour are showing.
"But substance abuse and sexual exploitation are both integral to the capitalist system that has also destroyed the stockades of male employment, the economic basis of paternal authority in the family and in the wider community."
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. Truer words were never spoken. Look at what happened to Eastern Europe and Russia under neoliberal shock therapy.