4. Marxism and the Family
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- How do Marxists view the family?
- What role does the family play in capitalism according to Marxists?
- How does the family help workers cope according to Marxists?
- Who is Friedrich Engels?
- How did Engels believe the family evolved?
- What is referred to as the "promiscuous horde"?
- What was the first form of sexual restriction in societies?
- How is monogamy linked to private property ownership?
- What complication does monogamy avoid?
- How does monogamy reproduce inequality?
- How did the position of women change according to Engels?
- What was the role of women in wealthy bourgeois families?
- What is Engels' vision of the family in a communist society?
- What are the three main ways Zaretsky argues the family maintains capitalism?
- How does Zaretsky describe the family in relation to capitalism?
- What is the benefit of unpaid domestic labor in families?
- How does the family act as a unit of consumption?
- What does Cooper say about family relationships?
- How does the family indoctrinate children according to Cooper?
- What are the criticisms of Marxism regarding family studies?
- What does the criticism of assuming individuals are passive imply?
- Why is the focus on nuclear family seen as outdated?
- What does the over-focus on class in Marxism fail to consider?
- Why is Marxism considered ethnocentric?
- What does Marxism fail to explain about non-capitalist societies?