The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-22
With the Authors

H. @. WEISS, Box Maple and Sylvan Oakland Cal
"Lyststrata, The Future OF Women, Women
and the Future" by Ludovici, x. P. Dutton and
Company publishers, ia q very interesting little
book to read-and rather funny In spots. What
ever humor there Is in the book, however is totally
unconscious humoT, as Ludovdcd Is writing In dead
earnest and doesn't realize how funny he sounds
at times 1t all SINNERS down to the fact that he
evidently mas what that Freudians would call sex
complex. Not because he writes about sex, you
understand, but because he gets so het up about
it. Note how naively he assumes his women would
lose interest in life without the sex emotion to sus
tain them. This is partly, believe, because Ludo
vici sets too much store on an animal enjoyment
of and is afraid of losing it. This reviewer
members talking to working stiff one night at
Leighton's Cafeteria Oakland, about the evolution
Of the machine, and what part the machine might
play in freeing women from the bearing Of chill
dren. Instead of being intrigued by the possibilities
lying in ectOgenesis the working gent got excited
and abusive declaring that mo contraptOn like that
was gonna come between him and his wife," It Is
amusing to find, in more learned and yelled Ian
guage, Ludovici expressing the same fear the
ignorant working stin
The author OF "l.ysswata" seems to be conscious
that women are going somewhere, and, with the
help Of incubator may get there And that isn't
half the grief Oscar. The hemen wont be with
them when they arrive. You can imagine what a
shock such thing would be TO Ludovic who Wis
ualizes himself as the he-men SO in revenge he
brings his book women to inevitable boredom and
suicide as an awful warning to real wives and
mothers to stay contented with their lotto say
nothing OF the he-men.
The fear that the female OF the species may get
somewhere without him affects Ludovicis reason
ing to such extent that he forgets to be logical
To say that women, evolved thru science to the
extent he imagines would commit suicide because
Of Illustration is not straight thinking by any
means.
Do we contemplate suicide today because let US
say we no longer enjoy the act as keenly as
did our remote ancestors? Do we think life not
worth the living because we miss to the full the
savage thrill of crunching pulsing throat beneath
our teeth, because we no longer SAVIOR the squirt
ing blood of the kill with all the abandonment Of
an animal? The mere thought is absurd. What con-
stitutes enjoyment has changed. If male today
were to conduct himself in the relation
caYeman did he would be locked up in peniten-
tiary or an asylum. Compared to the average man
he would be freak Yet the average man enjoys
the sex act to the extent of his capacity He does
not for instance, feel intense longing to react
emotionally as would a Neanderthal man. The real
truth of the matter is that he would never miss
what he, Individually, had never possessed. While
certain impulses might persist and manifest them
selves in thousand vague ways, they would not
be enough to color his conscious thinking and
tainly not enough to drive him to suicide. AS for
missing the thrill of crunching ON pulsing throat
or the exquisite enjoyment of savoring squirting
blood all have to say is that the average person
finds the mere thought Of such things disgusting.
Except for few faddists, most of us want our
meat cooked and there is a growing army of vege-
tarians-enough to cause widespread advertisement
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