https://prole.wiki/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Essay%3AOn_ProstitutionEssay:On Prostitution - Revision history2026-10-26T06:47:48ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.11https://prole.wiki/w/index.php?title=Essay:On_Prostitution&diff=87725&oldid=prevComrade Kiwi at 17:15, 20 October 20252025-10-20T17:15:38Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Is prostitution just another job? Or is it fundamentally coercive i.e. commodified intimacy extracted through economic desperation that cannot be reformed, only abolished? Can consent exist under threat of destitution? Does calling it "sex work" liberate anyone, or does it naturalize existing structures and social relations? If revolutionary violence against structures is justified, what becomes of systems built on gendered commodification? These aren't moral questions but material ones, demanding answers grounded in class struggle rather than liberal platitudes about "choice" and "empowerment". This text attempts to rigorously face the various questions directly.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Is prostitution just another job? Or is it fundamentally coercive i.e. commodified intimacy extracted through economic desperation that cannot be reformed, only abolished? Can consent exist under threat of destitution? Does calling it "sex work" liberate anyone, or does it naturalize existing structures and social relations? If revolutionary violence against structures is justified, what becomes of systems built on gendered commodification? These aren't moral questions but material ones, demanding answers grounded in class struggle rather than liberal platitudes about "choice" and "empowerment". This text attempts to rigorously face the various questions directly.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Comrade Kiwihttps://prole.wiki/w/index.php?title=Essay:On_Prostitution&diff=87695&oldid=prevComrade Kiwi at 20:06, 18 October 20252025-10-18T20:06:14Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This is structurally identical to wage labor in its coercive character, but there is a '''<u>critical difference in its potential for transformation</u>'''. Wage labor, while coercive under capitalism, becomes transformed under socialism into genuinely free labor serving the collective. The coercion stems from private ownership of the means of production, which socialism abolishes. The worker in a socialist factory is still producing, still transforming nature through labor, but now for the collective benefit rather than capitalist profit. '''The activity itself i.e. labor, is liberated from exploitation while remaining labor.'''</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This is structurally identical to wage labor in its coercive character, but there is a '''<u>critical difference in its potential for transformation</u>'''. Wage labor, while coercive under capitalism, becomes transformed under socialism into genuinely free labor serving the collective. The coercion stems from private ownership of the means of production, which socialism abolishes. The worker in a socialist factory is still producing, still transforming nature through labor, but now for the collective benefit rather than capitalist profit. '''The activity itself i.e. labor, is liberated from exploitation while remaining labor.''' </div></td></tr>
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</table>Comrade Kiwihttps://prole.wiki/w/index.php?title=Essay:On_Prostitution&diff=87676&oldid=prevComrade Kiwi at 17:46, 17 October 20252025-10-17T17:46:10Z<p></p>
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</table>Comrade Kiwihttps://prole.wiki/w/index.php?title=Essay:On_Prostitution&diff=87675&oldid=prevComrade Kiwi at 17:45, 17 October 20252025-10-17T17:45:08Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No, because coercion is not ''primarily'' a subjective psychological state but an objective material relation. The prostitute "consents" to sell sexual access in the same sense that the worker "consents" to wage labor: under '''threat''' of destitution. The subjective experience of that coercion varies. Some workers love their jobs; this does not make wage labor non-exploitative. Some prostitutes feel empowered by their work; this does not make prostitution non-coercive. The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">exploitation </del>and coercion exist at the level of social relations, not individual psychology.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No, because coercion is not ''primarily'' a subjective psychological state but an objective material relation. The prostitute "consents" to sell sexual access in the same sense that the worker "consents" to wage labor: under '''threat''' of destitution. The subjective experience of that coercion varies. Some workers love their jobs; this does not make wage labor non-exploitative. Some prostitutes feel empowered by their work; this does not make prostitution non-coercive. The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">social murder </ins>and coercion exist at the level of social relations, not <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">just </ins>individual psychology<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, although it often reflects it</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Comrade Kiwihttps://prole.wiki/w/index.php?title=Essay:On_Prostitution&diff=87674&oldid=prevComrade Kiwi at 17:43, 17 October 20252025-10-17T17:43:28Z<p></p>
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</table>Comrade Kiwihttps://prole.wiki/w/index.php?title=Essay:On_Prostitution&diff=87660&oldid=prevComrade Kiwi at 07:25, 17 October 20252025-10-17T07:25:52Z<p></p>
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</table>Comrade Kiwihttps://prole.wiki/w/index.php?title=Essay:On_Prostitution&diff=87656&oldid=prevComrade Kiwi at 07:10, 17 October 20252025-10-17T07:10:05Z<p></p>
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