My final sociology exam to get a BA was a 4 hour exam where we had to sit down and write three 2000 word essays off of 6 random questions presented at the exam.
No notes allowed.
When the fuck will I ever have someone put a gun to my head and say 'reguiritate from memory these three topics with SOURCES and write them in pen, you have an hour'
Absolutely useless exam type. I still passed but it felt more like a speedrun than an actual test.
I feel the exact same way as you regarding sex work.
Yeah I agree the way he frames it and talks about betrays his actual reactionary feelings of disgust at sex workers (as well as trans people) which is why hes clearly a right-devionanist
He might have made some good contributions to breaking myths related to the USSR, but sometimes assholes make one good point, its important to be critical of everyone and not fall victim to cults of personality.
I dont hate the arguement here, 'eleminating' essentially means removing the material reasons why people are coerced into the sex trade. There are strong femminist arguements against this that boil down to the reason it even has value to begin with is the male gaze/patriarchy and liberal conceptions of the 'pornography industry'.
Some of his later arguements are a bit nonsensical regarding productive/non-productive labour though.
However yeah its disapointing to see him fall for the TERF idpolitics or abandon the ideas around primative accumlation and unequal exchange.
Yeah I hate to sit here and psycho-analyse someone I dont know as well lol, just the amount of negging and talking in circles going on is leading me to that evaluation, they havent displayed any self-awareness and just keep doubling down.
They may very well not be abusive, the entire thread and comments made within it though display those characteristics however.
My bet is abusive man syndrome, all the allegations of 'my abuser', calling them a pedophile, insisting that they are actually the victim, tone policing the response to them (eat soft shit) when it was them who brought the conversation down several levels by bringing up analogies of beaten wives when asked to reflect on a potentially racist misconception ect; this is how abusive people react when faced with even the smallest slight that impacts there own perception of there character.
And it sounds like projection, usually when people make baseless accusations like this it comes from guilt.
At a certain point good faith runs out and I have to achknowledge that Larkin is simply just doing 'DARVO', deflecting all criticism and making himself look like a victim.
He took a brick to the face
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street