funereal-disease:

> abortion has been a tool of the ruling class to manage their potential population

I am absolutely a class-first materialist type, and everything I say should be taken as coming from inside the house, so to speak, but – man, what is it with large swaths of the materialist left and their need to simp for tradcath gender norms?

I mean, part of the development of Japan as an industrial power was this land reform that encouraged peasants to clear waste ground and put it under cultivation (my loose memory was they paid the first 2-5 harvests to the central government but then it was just theirs with normal taxes from then out?)

But simultaneously imposed strict nonpartible primogeniture, and one of the effects was excess kids going to the cities for industry (like enclosure in the UK!) but part was breaking out of the Malthusian trap with a shit-ton of abortion

Like China’s “one-child” thing as a mechanism of Asian agricultural–>industrial development? Precedented!