I thought the concept of “abolition of the family” meant the decommodification of the nuclear family considering it is used to sustain capitalism. Get married and have kids for the sake of monetary benefits and climbing the social ladder. I may be misremembering, though, so please correct me if I’m wrong.
Basically yes, Marx and Engels idea was that family is a social construct being superstructure created by the mode of production, which is clearly observable in history (Engels “Origin of the family…”). It’s not very much discussed later because it’s something you cannot just decree, it follows the changes in the base.
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I thought the concept of “abolition of the family” meant the decommodification of the nuclear family considering it is used to sustain capitalism. Get married and have kids for the sake of monetary benefits and climbing the social ladder. I may be misremembering, though, so please correct me if I’m wrong.
Basically yes, Marx and Engels idea was that family is a social construct being superstructure created by the mode of production, which is clearly observable in history (Engels “Origin of the family…”). It’s not very much discussed later because it’s something you cannot just decree, it follows the changes in the base.