by A.T. Meininger

Created on: December 04, 2009

Yes, the family is innately a collectivistic relationship as is Communism. There are definite similarities. The parents provide everything for no cost (what the parents don't directly pay for the state will-including public schools). There is a great consciousness of the power disparity between the ruling class and the proletariat, but little is it ever spoken of in families (despite the parent-child relationship has a hundred fold gap between the worker-businessman). Both ideologies of family and communism are inherently false. The individual is sacrificed for the greater good of the whole. Any parent who drags their children off to do what they don't want to do asks the same 'noble sacrifice' of the worker's blood to take down the bourgeois establishment. Without individuals, there exists no concept of the government, the people, the ruling class, or the family. And so it's this greater good of the whole that individuals must sacrifice to that makes these concepts so corrupt.

Let's observe Karl for a moment. He printed the Communist Manifesto on the wealth of Engels. Without Engels, Marx wouldn't have the means to be a writer. Two of Marx's daughters committed suicide-which does say a lot of the person who tries to raise a family and support a familial-state ideology. You may say that it's the ideas are important, not Karl Marx's life. I disagree. Without some environment to be raised in, the ideas that formulate would not have formulated if the conditions were different.

Many ideas came about as a by-product of Marxism: post-modernism, feminism, socialism, environmentalism, Critical Theory, ect. Let's take an example-feminism. The family is predominantly ruled by the mother. The father will work to provide for the family, but mothers will be the primary parental figure to the children. Communism sounds like an appealing ideal to the women who like the idea of family. The patriarchy is the great evil that needs to be defeated: men should not rule. In the women rights movement, there are strands of socialist economics. Caring for others is a great marketing point for the ideology. (the fact that it's done at gunpoint is part of the fine print that most never read). But caring for the family and getting rid of the male oppressor is a strong idea and when taken to it's logical conclusion produces the modern welfare state. It's an example of throwing out the male in an otherwise consensual relationship and the female takes upon both working and child-rearing.

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