• QueerCommie
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    5 months ago

    European “communists” never fail to disappoint.

    argument that there are too few children for adoption

    That’s an insane problem to have. Mfs like “I want my own physical being to take care of and put tons of effort into in addition to my work.” This problem calls for less traditional family norms, not more. Have these revisionists not even read the manifesto?

    Abolition [Aufhebung] of the family!

    Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists. On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.

    The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital. Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.

    -Karl Marx

    Earlier he notes:

    The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.

    Your Greek opportunists do not understand that we are trying to move past capitalism, not to revert to earlier relations.

    One more thing. I’m sure one of the worries is the “demographic crisis.” The solution they should be putting forward is making the bourgeoisie lower the cost of living. Criminalizing gay people isn’t going to make them be straight and have kids.