The communist manifesto is dedicated to the question of the family. They assert that the family, the bourgeois family will be abolished alongside capitalism. So what is the family for Marx and Engels? And in what does it reveal about their theorization of sex, sexuality, and kinship under capitalism? It's simultaneously about the social and economic reality of capitalism.
Featuring China Miéville on The Communist Manifesto. Miéville is the author of A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto.
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