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Some people may not know about that, but a common belief associated with Marxists is that they support the current state of dating market, which is rooted in free love and abolishing of the nuclear family system.
The general Marxist view is actually very similar to the mainstream liberal values today - LGBT, hookups, free love...Despite the fact that Marxists claim that free love may not be polygamy, or that it promotes promiscuity, you cannot deny biology and the mateguarding mechanism was put in place for a reason.
Let's review two sources today....One from a newspaper associated with the communist party of Britain (now defunct) and other from Reddit.
Here's what ledditors have to say about this...
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchy101/comments/10d6tp9/quick_rundown_on_free_love_and_anarchism/
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/105qp73/what_do_marxists_mean_when_they_want_to_abolish/
There are more if you want to read, but from what we can see, Marxists are obsessed with dogmatism and ideology. To them, Marxism is a surrogate religion in place of a traditional religion.
The general Marxist view is actually very similar to the mainstream liberal values today - LGBT, hookups, free love...Despite the fact that Marxists claim that free love may not be polygamy, or that it promotes promiscuity, you cannot deny biology and the mateguarding mechanism was put in place for a reason.
Let's review two sources today....One from a newspaper associated with the communist party of Britain (now defunct) and other from Reddit.
‘Free love’ or ‘family values’ — is there a Marxist view?
morningstaronline.co.uk
Despite the author's claim that Marxist does not have particular business in family view/"love", their position is inherently contradictory to the traditional family unitBut Marxists don’t have a collective “position” on people’s personal relationships or domestic arrangements, as long as they are entered into freely, don’t involve violence, coercion, corruption, exploitation or greed, and don’t damage anyone else
Love, in particular, is (arguably) beyond the remit of any Marxist analysis. People fall in love, fall out of love; two (or more) people get together, and while their relationship may be of interest to others, it is no particular business of a Marxist.
Word salad. Here we see the slipping of the author's bias.And for the much lesser time that Marxism and communism have been around, they have been castigated for (amongst other things) belittling this hallowed unit and for promoting promiscuity.
The reality is a little more complex. “The family” today corresponds probably less than it ever has in the past to the supposedly ideal nuclear family.
This particularly applies to the status of women and also to same sex/non-binary relationships, whether sanctioned by law or not.
Marxism is, above everything else, a dialectical and materialist examination of how humans live and how we sustain and reproduce ourselves — the production and reproduction of human existence. Social institutions (including the family) are intimately linked to these two elements.
This is contradictory, another common characteristic from Marxists. No, abolishing the family MAKES IT so it turns women into "wage workers", not the other way around.In 1847 Engels wrote that communism would “transform the relations between the sexes into a purely private matter which concerns only the persons involved and into which society has no occasion to intervene. It can do this since it does away with private property and educates children on a communal basis, and in this way removes the two bases of traditional marriage — the dependence rooted in private property, of the women on the man, and of the children on the parents.”
Immediately after the Bolshevik revolution Alexandra Kollontai and Nadezhda Krupskaya (Lenin’s wife) began to elaborate a revolutionary vision for women, based on a code of equality and “a withering away of the family.”
They saw the traditional family as an agent of oppression under capitalism, which “has placed on the shoulders of the woman a burden which crushes her: it has made her a wage worker without having lessened her cares as a housekeeper and mother.”
That oppression would be transformed with its abolition, not by sending women “back to the home” (something that happened in Britain after the second world war when women had occupied roles previously regarded as the province of men) but by economic, social and sexual equality.
Under socialism, they declared, the patriarchal family would become a “legacy from the past” to be replaced by “free love.”
So, in short, a welfare system combined with free love and lack of parents, since the state takes care of things...That is actually very similar to the single mom situation today.Children, the elderly, and the disabled would be supported by the state; housework would be socialised and waged; and women would no longer be economically dependent on men.
The family, stripped of its social functions, would “wither away,” replaced by “free unions” based on mutual love and respect. The code aimed to provide a transitional legal framework for that short period in which legal duties and protections were still necessary.
Kollontai wrote of the need for “a new form of relation between the sexes … in place of the indissoluble marriage based on the servitude of woman, we shall see rise the free union, fortified by the love and respect of the two members of the Workers’ State equal in their rights and in their obligations.”
No, the family system will not and shall not change. It is rooted in our biology to have a mom and a dad, just as wolves have their wolf pack, bears with their "mama bear" and so on. Yes, some animals have "single moms" like bears, but that is how they evolved. We were evolved to have a mother and a father. End of discussion.The family features prominently in propaganda and policy of both church and state. Everything from pensions to inheritance tax is made easier for married couples.
And for capital, the family is a unit of consumption and a site for the realisation of profit in its own right.
The reality is that the concept of the family is a fluid one, and one that is not inherently antithetical to “free” love. It has changed over time and will continue to do so.
Here's what ledditors have to say about this...
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchy101/comments/10d6tp9/quick_rundown_on_free_love_and_anarchism/
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/105qp73/what_do_marxists_mean_when_they_want_to_abolish/
There are more if you want to read, but from what we can see, Marxists are obsessed with dogmatism and ideology. To them, Marxism is a surrogate religion in place of a traditional religion.
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