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Which historical Communist would be the best roommate?
(thelemmy.club)
I'm thinking Engels. Responsible, reliable, motivated, has money, knows how to manage it and is incredibly generous (he died with more than he gained from the factory sale despite supporting the whole German/communist underground in London).
Also who'd be worst? Would Marx ever catch up with his chores? Would Che disappear suddenly for months at a time?
(Not a very serious question obviously)
If Rosa would be my roommate, I'd happily do the dishes and the clothing to give her more room for writing and agitation. She clearly was far, far better at it than me. Would be an honor to support her taking over household chores. We shouldn't infantilise men to the point of lowering the bar to who would even be able to do basic social labor.
well sure, i think they could learn, and obviously rosa's political work was no less valuable than theirs. but the question was, which theorist would make the best roommate. and the differences in practical knowledge reproduction in europe between men and women at the time would have certainly rendered an amount of immediate (but correctable) helplessness from men that were used to all domestic labor falling under "women's work."