Title says it all. I don’t exactly know what this account is, but it’s basically a Liberal masking as a Marxist.

  • @Lemmy_Mouse
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    1 year ago

    Seems edgy to make some sort of point removed from the concept of for or against family, they just seem to dislike leftists or even have a more broad issue with society overall and are misplacing their anger. Trolls target any topic that’s popular to make themselves stand out, their goal being to matter in society’s eyes. That being said, let me go off on a family tangent because I feel like it;

    The family is a vital social relation. Families are as old as humanity itself. The family is still around now a days and will continue to be likely until the end of our species. The family is such a staple in our species’ history that we actually framed entire power structures around them at one point. From slavery through feudalism, power was peacefully passed down through the family. Capitalism ended this, the division of ownership over the means of production via the market replaced familial relations for passing power. This is what tradition-orientated reactionaries set their minds towards, and in so they blame the symbols of progress for destroying these relations as well as a litany of transgressions against their beliefs. They blame the most opposite of their ideology as it just follows basic logic, however as I have explained, history begs to differ.

    Now to address the literal argument itself; Western leftists reject the native family model not due to ideology, nor due to economic interests, but due to trauma suffered within this model which was caused by a spiral chain of conditions originating with the economic material conditions within late 20th century and early 21st century America. Economic despair brings aggravated internal contradictions including social conditions. The specific character of the American society is one of chauvinism and especially arrogant sexism and narcissistic tendencies. This is why the reaction has been what it has been; the rise of feminism in the face of this arrogant sexism, sexual and gender liberation in the face of prudent and oppressive christianity, anti-authority anarchism in the face of a deeply corrupted and selfishly exploitative authority throughout society, and us communists who reject anarchy, chaos, and disorder in the face of the most advanced model of capitalism - the system of chaos and disorder.

    This does not mean “leftists reject the family” as in familial relations, no. Many of us have families of our own we have started, it’s simply the native ones we were born into of which many of us reject. This is not the same as rejecting a form of social relation, if it were then we would not continue the trend of creating new families whether formal through sexual relations, or informal through animal pack relations (the so-called “chosen family” of close friends some have chosen to go with). While this is also muddied by the prevalence of the “anti-natalists”, many of them are only for breaking the continuity of the familial social relation due to the state of the current world, refusing to put a child through such trauma, which is a motivation of mercy not of rage as the post’s subject infers, and also itself infers a temporal stance on the matter for what they deem as good sense.