https://chatgpt.com/c/68ce8cbc-524c-8329-afbb-6ef956001f7e
Capitalist France
Sexual exploitation: The Paris Opera Ballet was notorious for the foyer de la danse, a backstage salon where wealthy male abonnés (subscribers) could meet ballerinas. Patronage often had a sexual dimension: dancers, especially from poor families, were pressured into becoming mistresses of elite men to secure financial stability and career advancement.
Socialist Russia
State control: In Russia, ballet was under the patronage of the Imperial Theatres, meaning it was funded and controlled by the Tsarist state rather than private subscribers. This gave it a more “official” aura of cultural prestige.
So obviously there was exploitation by predatory men of both systems, the state acted as a breaking system to private indulgences.
Is not the whole idea of a "private" system, one that grants individuals illicit rights?
How did we ever come to demonise the state? Oh of course it was powerful private individual Americans who did this ;-)
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