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Originally posted by Sodfather@Sep 3 2003, 08:57 PM
Is the idea of doing away with the family system part of Communism also or is it just an unrelated Marxist view? All I know is that his reasoning was that it'd even out the playing field by eliminating wealth gained by inheritance...But...That contradicts the idea of Communism so I guess it's not a Communistic ideal? |
Somewhere in Marx's writings he said (paraphrasing of course) that all that family and education bullshit will leave under communism.
This is when its important to remember what time he was writing in. Families were not places to grow and develop, they were wealth producing or consuming units. Working class people had families just to support themselves, sending all the kids to work. Rich people married richer people to get even richer. Thats as simple as I can put it.
There is also a hippier type view to this, and thats that kids can also be raised communaly, as everyone will have so much free time...