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Abolish the Family | Sophie Lewis speaks to Ben Smoke

The Verso Podcast

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Work and the Family Are One

The family is bourgeois in this, in this society because it privatizes care. And you kind of get to why it doesn't make sense to almost like exclude the very people that are closest to abolishing the family from family abolition. It's really intense to say family abolition in a context where, you know, Palestinian families are essentially under, under fire,. Being torn apart or migrant families at the border. But can we not have enough subtlety to understand that we can work to take the boot off the neck of racialized, colonized families and single working class moms?

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