Marxism

• what does SUCS stand for?


  Socialises and produces future workforce

  Unpaid domestic labour by women

  Consumption helps bourgeoisie gain wealth

  Safety valve for stress of workers (not good)
• Engels


  primitive communism - big community, no family, no private property

  capitalism emerged > reproduction > proletariat oppressed > monogamous nuclear family

  primogeniture - oldest male gets wealth

  women = ‘glorified prostitutes’
• Althusser


  ideological state apparatus

  >nuclear family used to pass down ruling class ideas and values

  > encourage capitalism, exploitation is fair
• ways the family maintain capitalism…

  • parental power
  • accept orders from capitalist employees
  • socialising kids into idea that hierarchy and inequality are inevitable
• Zaretsky


  family = ‘prop’ to capitalism

  Haven - safe place from outside world to be themselves

  > unit of consumption - reproduce future gen of workers

  unpaid domestic labour by women
• criticisms


  > ignore other family types other than nuclear

  > feminists - underestimates importance of gender inequality

  > functionalists - ignore real benefits the family provides for its members