Blinkered by marxist ideology.Śiva wrote:Interesting tidbit from it, saturated in Freudian Oedipal stuff, but still pretty good:Thus, the family has a dual political function:
1. It reproduces itself by crippling people sexually. By maintaining the patriarchal family, it also preserves sexual repression and its results: sexual disturbances, neuroses, psychoses, sexual crimes.
2. It produces the authority-fearing, life-fearing vassal, and thus constantly creates new possibilities whereby a handful of men in power can rules the masses.
In this way, the family assumes, in the eyes of conservatives, its special importance as a bulwark of the social order they affirm. This is why it is one of the most strongly defended positions in conservative sexology. For it "maintains the state and the people"--in the reactionary sense. Therefore, evaluating the family may serve us as a yardstick for judging the general nature of social orders.
And not "Seth marxist", but the real deal...
I've never heard of it. It must be a weird one.
