We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and "Villages" that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
Where does this hostility toward the family originate? Partly, it comes from the theories of Marx and Engels themselves, and their views that an earlier, matriarchal version of the family rejected private property as an organizing principle of society.
Clearly, in the Marxian view, this "New" type of family must be opposed, since the destruction of this family model will make it easier to abolish private property as well.
Frederick Engels's 1884 book The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State provides a historical perspective of the Marxian view of the development of the modern Western family unit and its relation to property rights.
"Man's advent to practical supremacy in the household marked the removal to his universal supremacy," and further ushered in "The gradual transition from the pairing family to the monogamic family".
In the Marxian view the modern nuclear family runs counter to the ancient "Communistic" household Engels had earlier described.
"In the great majority of cases the man has to earn a living and to support his family, at least among the possessing classes. He thereby obtains a superior position that has no need of any legal special privilege. In the family, he is the bourgeois, the woman represents the proletariat." The family unit, rather than the collective tribe, had become the "Industrial unit of society."
Where does this hostility toward the family originate? Partly, it comes from the theories of Marx and Engels themselves, and their views that an earlier, matriarchal version of the family rejected private property as an organizing principle of society.
Clearly, in the Marxian view, this "New" type of family must be opposed, since the destruction of this family model will make it easier to abolish private property as well.
Frederick Engels's 1884 book The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State provides a historical perspective of the Marxian view of the development of the modern Western family unit and its relation to property rights.
"Man's advent to practical supremacy in the household marked the removal to his universal supremacy," and further ushered in "The gradual transition from the pairing family to the monogamic family".
In the Marxian view the modern nuclear family runs counter to the ancient "Communistic" household Engels had earlier described.
"In the great majority of cases the man has to earn a living and to support his family, at least among the possessing classes. He thereby obtains a superior position that has no need of any legal special privilege. In the family, he is the bourgeois, the woman represents the proletariat." The family unit, rather than the collective tribe, had become the "Industrial unit of society."
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