Fair play for Sue Ann Hamm-just divorced?

Billionaire Harold Hamm and his wife of 26 years Sue Ann Hamm.
Their divorce COULD HAVE BEEN the most expensive of all time!

True socialists have argued for years about the fundamentally rotten nature of bourgeois marriage. Most often they have in mind upper class marriage where there is a significant amount of PRIVATE PROPERTY at stake in both unions and divorces.

How many bourgeois feminists will be indignant about the UNFAIR divorce settlement of Continental Chief Executive Officer Harold Hamm and his wife of 26 years Sue Ann Hamm? The Oklahoma oil magnate is worth some $18 billion but SHE gets only cash and assets worth just a little more than a billion dollars. Fair play for Sue Hamm!

No SOCIALIST judge in a SANE SOCIETY would have any problem simply denying excessive private wealth to the spoiled  "better-half" of any soured traditional marriage. By the way, the very same farce is now happening with over-sentimentalized and romanticized gay marriage.

Socialists pointed out more than a century ago that bourgeois marriage and the bourgeois family were the main social mechanisms for reproducing and perpetuating social inequality.

In a socialist society there will be no possibility of SOCIAL CLIMBING through marriage. In divorce court today the rich man rightly perceives his now unloved and unloving wife as a parasite. But so is HE!

Submitted to: letters@providencejournal.com