“Abolition 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.” …Black Lies Murther at least has not pretended to not be communistic.
— Chapter II of the Manifesto
This doesn’t even make sense. From time immemorial the family has existed for both the rich and the impoverished, in great money and in next to none. Who has sold them such a load of bovine excrement, such malarkey, as this?
Oh, for another George Washington Carver.