People don’t understand what “family abolition” is about. It’s not about literally tearing families apart, but about socialising care.
Think about it: Why are contards so fond of “family values” whilst pushing for austerity and cuts in social programs? It’s simple: Those two aren’t contradictory since it’s entirely coherent to support government cuts on healthcare and education and welfare whilst trying to privatise that via offshoring to the family. No more will care be given via state programs, as all that (plus education, healthcare, etc…) is off-loaded to the nuclear family.
People need to understand that, contrary to popular opinion, the nuclear family as an arrangement has only been a tradition in England as that kind of arrangement was normative since at least the 13th century, but elsewhere it was a novel thing brought forth by capitalism among other economic forces and material conditions that ended up favoring the nuclear family over generational households and communes.
Hence why the rich fucks of the likes of Elon wants the prole to breed but in dire poverty: To get cheap labor but sans the bargaining power of the workers as the proletariat gets replaced by new native workers instead of imported surplus labor. That is also why adult workers campaigned child labor while contards today want to bring it back in America: Child labor undercuts the adults’ wages, and also because capitalists need an underclass to astroturf the economic figures.
So, going back to the main question, what is “family abolition” really about? Simply put, instead of privatising care, it’s primarily about socialising that so that no more are individuals tied by blood relations, instead having the freedom to choose who they associate with and get care for under a socialist system where high-trust and community will be at the forefront of the vanguard.
Ofc this won’t dissolve the family as a general arrangement of social relations, but it will loosen it to the extent that the hierarchies of yore will gradually dissolve, hence the “abolition” part: Instead of having only your parents to care for you, you’ll have friends, extended family members, and neighbours to do that as well, like in a commune.
Ofc this has a major flaw: Namely, that even in the most collectivist industrialised societies the level of trust between individuals isn’t deep enough to make that functional. If you can’t trust your Neighbor to take care of you
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.