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We must abolish the Family


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2020 Feb 21, 11:03am   585 views  7 comments

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Lewis isn’t concerned with incremental changes within our existing systems—Full Surrogacy Now, for example, doesn’t make any concrete policy proposals or spend time worrying over issues like the gender pay gap and paid family leave. She’s concerned with much bolder possibilities: In Lewis's utopian future, the family as we know it no longer exists. Everyone, regardless of gender, is a surrogate; we mother each other.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdzwb/sophie-lewis-feminist-abolishing-the-family-full-surrogacy-now

It's amazing that ending the most successful household organization system, that produced huge social, economic, etc. gains while drug abuse, homelessness, absolute poverty, etc. was all but unheard of even before the welfare state, is pushed so seriously.

We should instead be subsidizing nuclear families and disincentivizing single parenting and alternative retardation styles.

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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Feb 21, 11:16am  

On the last day we spent together, I visited Lewis at her home. Originally, she was going to take me on a short walking tour of her neighborhood, but it was raining and gloomy outside, so we settled into two armchairs in her living room. She made us green tea, pouring mine into a mug that read “I’ve got 99 problems and white heteronormative patriarchy is basically all of them.” To my delight, her cat, a small tabby named Robespierre—after the French revolutionary—jumped onto my lap.

Whatta Stereotype.
2   Bd6r   2020 Feb 21, 11:23am  

This Lewis woman (I hope I am not misgendering her) is way too late with such ideas.

Alexandra Kollontai 1920
Communism and the Family
First Published: in Komunistka, No. 2, 1920

But even if housework disappears, you may argue, there are still the children to look after. But here too, the workers’ state will come to replace the family, society will gradually take upon itself all the tasks that before the revolution fell to the individual parents.

There is no escaping the fact: the old type of family has had its day. The family is withering away not because it is being forcibly destroyed by the state, but because the family is ceasing to be a necessity. The state does not need the family, because the domestic economy is no longer profitable: the family distracts the worker from more useful and productive labour. The members of the family do not need the family either, because the task of bringing up the children which was formerly theirs is passing more and more into the hands of the collective.
3   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Feb 21, 11:27am  

rd6B says
There is no escaping the fact: the old type of family has had its day. The family is withering away not because it is being forcibly destroyed by the state, but because the family is ceasing to be a necessity. The state does not need the family, because the domestic economy is no longer profitable: the family distracts the worker from more useful and productive labour. The members of the family do not need the family either, because the task of bringing up the children which was formerly theirs is passing more and more into the hands of the collective.


Once we dismantle the welfare state, which will happen in 40 years when the large numbers of Charismatic, Evangelical, Conservatives from both the US and the offspring of immigrants from ever-more-Protestant Central and South America arrive (in much larger numbers than Sunnis and Shi'a, btw), this will be regarded as a crazy explosion of madness.

Like Seances and Theosophy from the turn of the Century. People will laugh their asses off that these things were treated seriously by Legacy Media.

Lewis has no children. If she is serious about advancing her cause, she needs to have 3 babies in the next 3 years if she possibly can, being over 30.

But since the Hungry Hammer followers believe in the Eschaton powered by Human Population growth, she won't. Their own seeds of destruction are within their own philosophy.
4   Ceffer   2020 Feb 21, 11:41am  

Genetic narcissism is why humans put up with the screaming rugrats in the first place. Bitter feminists with Daddy issues, screaming psychotic from soap boxes in the howling moonlight. How do these crazies get air space?
5   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Feb 21, 11:56am  

Ceffer says
Genetic narcissism is why humans put up with the screaming rugrats in the first place. Bitter feminists with Daddy issues, screaming psychotic from soap boxes in the howling moonlight. How do these crazies get air space?


Her daddy's main problem is not having the balls to cut her off.

Dr. Lewis’s German-English translations for MIT Press include A Brief History of Feminism (Antje Schrupp) and Communism for Kids (Bini Adamczak). Her translation of Sabine Hark and Paula-Irene Villa’s account of femo-nationalist Islamophobia in Germany, Other and Rule, is forthcoming from Verso. She is a member of the ecological writing collective Out of the Woods, which publishes in forums such as The New Inquiry and Commune, and an editor at Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry, whose collection End/And: Feminization in Unending Times came out in 2017. In addition to speaking on Full Surrogacy Now, she is working on two subsequent book manuscripts, Feminism of Fools and Amniotechnics.

https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/people/sophie-lewis/
None of which paid shit, I'm sure.
6   Shaman   2020 Feb 21, 3:34pm  

Family is the only thing most of us are living for. Take that away, and the sheer emptiness of day to day life would be crippling. I can’t imagine working every day just for my own needs or the needs of some all powerful state. Even pride wouldn’t propel me far enough. It would be a tremendously lonely existence and probably wouldn’t last very long as people would opt out in one way or another.
Also, what’s a woman’s incentive to bring a baby to term if she can’t raise it as her own? Plenty of women right now, perhaps a plurality, would rather abort their baby than give it up for adoption.

This policy would lead to a massive population crash...which would please the Leftist idiots who came up with it.
7   Ceffer   2020 Feb 21, 3:44pm  

There was a long article many years ago written by a 'former' radical feminist, reporting on her own sisthren. She made it clear that they were all whack a doodles one upping each other with histrionic drama, bizarre mandates, breakaway subcultures in the subculture, and constant in fighting about who was crazier and more assertive in their madness.

Never mistake the borderline personality antics and performance art fashion slut drama of a subculture for either philosophy or meaningful social directives.

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