Major Democrat bloc calls to abolish the nuclear family
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), an influential wing of the Democratic Party, is openly calling to abolish the nuclear family.
The DSA’s over 90,000 members include far-Left lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). They also include Islamists like Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor, and Minnesota State Senator Omar Fateh, who recently clinched the Democratic nomination for mayor of Minneapolis.
Last week, the DSA uploaded a video of a panel discussion called “The Left and the Family: A Roundtable,” which took place at its Socialism Conference in Chicago on July 4th. As The Post Millennial notes, the video’s caption calls the traditional family structure “an inherently repressive, racist, and hetero-sexist institution that functionally reinforces and reproduces capitalism.”
The speakers, all of whom remained masked throughout the discussion, included University of Chicago sociologist Eman Abdelhadi. Abdelhadi praised the rampant single motherhood in Black communities, where as much as 70% of children are born to unmarried mothers and an estimated 64% grow up in single-parent households.
“We can fight for family abolition, we can imagine family abolition, because we have seen Black women do it. Because we have seen these indigenous communities do it,” she said.
“I’m ambivalent about whether we use the F word [family] or not,” Abdelhadi added. “But I think for me it’s about focusing on policies, right, and being really clear about what material benefits we are gonna give people.”
Abdelhadi, an Islamist, also claimed that Islam aligns with the far-Left agenda on “queer rights and trans rights.” It is only a “loud minority,” she claimed, that drowns out Islam’s tolerance for gender ideology.
Another panel speaker was Emily Janakiram of New York City for Abortion Rights, who quoted from the late Marxist revolutionary Thomas Sankara: “The only real difference between marriage and prostitution is the price and duration of the contract.” She tied the institution of marriage to the “criminalization of sex workers” and declared that “women lead the fight against capitalism and imperialism, period.”
Katie Gibson of the University of Chicago slammed parental authority: “If you are born into a home headed by a Christian fundamentalist tyrant, for instance, you have the rights that that Christian fundamentalist tyrant gives you,” she said.
One of the attendees, who claimed to be a Baptist minister from Austin, said he hopes to one day perform abortions in a church as part of the “revolutionary horizon.”
Marxism and the family
Since its birth, Marxism has viewed the family as an obstacle to state power. Karl Marx called for the abolition of the family in his Communist Manifesto of 1848. Schools in Communist countries like the Soviet Union tried to break up families by encouraging children to snitch on their parents. Hungary, during a brief stint of Communism in 1919, tried to commandeer children using a familiar playbook:
“Special lectures were organized in schools and literature printed and distributed to ‘instruct’ children about free love, about the nature of sexual intercourse, about the archaic nature of bourgeois family codes, about the outdatedness of monogamy, and the irrelevance of religion, which deprives man of all pleasure,” wrote historian Victor Zitta. “Children urged thus to reject and deride paternal authority and the authority of the church, and to ignore precepts of morality.”
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