Main role of the family (Marxism)

He, Marx, show how the bourgeoisie take advantage of the proletariat and their labour; the proletariat are a tool used to create profit and to keep profit margins at acceptable levels.   Marx argues that the monogamous bourgeois nuclear family developed to help solve the problem of the inheritance of private property.   The men needed to know who their children were in order to pass on their property to their heirs. The family was therefore thought to be by…