I would also oppose a return to the slave-society patriarchal hierarchy values which permeate the classics, but I respectfully submit that this does not mean that the classics should not be studied. There are various reasons to study the classics, one of which is precisely to understand that humans can easily fall into slave-society patriarchal hierarchy value and practices. Those tempted to reject capitalism and modern industry should realize that the alternative is not likely to be a non-violent, egalitarian, and harmonious society.
And let us read the suffragettes and abolitionists, I agree, but let us try to understand that there were reasons, going beyond the sheer wickedness of those in power, why our ancestors largely did not recognize women as the civic and political equals of men, and why their societies often rested on the backs of slaves, serfs, or uneducated and desperately poor laborers.
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Date: 2018-05-10 12:56 am (UTC)And let us read the suffragettes and abolitionists, I agree, but let us try to understand that there were reasons, going beyond the sheer wickedness of those in power, why our ancestors largely did not recognize women as the civic and political equals of men, and why their societies often rested on the backs of slaves, serfs, or uneducated and desperately poor laborers.