" Admittedly this is all self-indulgent speculation on my part. But I would be very interested in leaning about what Marxism has to say about the future of the nuclear family or more generally families and kinship groups in a socialist society."
Marxismis not a TOE. Moreover, this kind of interest in the daily life and detailed social relations of a socialist society smacks of authoritarianism. The obligation of socialists in a capitalist society centers on destruction of the barriers to human freedom. Hence, unlike bourgeois parties, socialists do not have a "Platform" detailing what "they" will do when they come into power. First of all, "they" are not going to come into power. The working class is to come into power. The Critique of the G Gotha Programme is not in any sense such a Platform (or recipe); it gives notes on (not a description of) the activity of workers in the months preceding and following the downfall of the capitalist state. Not a whit more. This lust for recipes (such as is implicit in the term-socialism" for example) is a major barrier to ceveloping a concrete struggle against capitalism. Carrol P.S. The Future is unknown. We cannot even declare that the future generations may choose to construct some new kind of authoritarian structure. If they do so, that is their right. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
