family

MARXISTS VIEW OF THE FAMILY

marxists see the nuclear family in negative terms and believe the role/function of the family is to benefit the ruling minority at the expense of the proletariat as it helps to maintain false class consiousness and class inequality; it does this in three ways :
the inheritance of property - cqpitalism gave rise to the patriachal monogamous nuclear family which functioned to provide ruling class men with legitimate heirs to the…