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The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

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The Family Is Dead, Long Live the Family

I've not read Engels's text on the family and even in this text I get the general gist of what they're saying but perhaps this is just my own ignorance. They talk about how the family manifests under capitalism, how that's compared to how capitalists think of the family under capitalism. Do you have any thoughts on that? Have you read that original text by Engels that might flesh that out for me? Yeah, so I've read some of Engels on it and I've also read sort of colon ties thoughts on the family which you know on Engels and Marx a lot. In my article that I wrote I kind of argue that we should back off the language of family abolition a little bit

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