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Abolish the Family | Sophie Lewis speaks to Ben Smoke

The Verso Podcast

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Is There a Kickback to the Family?

The family is this thing that we don't think about as an economic institution or a state institution. So I wondered if you can kind of unpack that a little for us. People's visceral reaction is something I foreground because I don't think anybody really, very few of us have no fear of the idea of a radical change in the domain of family. We're manufactured through it. It's actually asking you to contemplate something that you cannot contemplate because you are you because of the family is how you were produced.

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