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Marxist theories of families - Coggle Diagram
Marxist theories of families
Eli Zaretsky (1976)
Primary socialisation
Family teaches workers to be blindly obedient.
children are taught there is a hierarchy and that they must be obedient- preparing them for workplace.
Stops rebellion
stops them from going against the system through actions like strikes.
a worker who has a family is less likely to engage in actions that threaten their income and their family's standard of living.
The modern nucear family mainly benefits capitalism.
Unit of consumption
essential in ensuring a profit for the capitalist class
The main condumpion of manufactured goods and services.
Marcuse (1964)
False needs
Family encourages them to subscribe to the ideals of the bourgeoise through false needs.
The purchasing of these 'needed' goods encourages the divide between rich and poor to increase.
Friedrick Engels
The monogamous nuclear family only became popular after the industrial revlotution.
The ruling class encouraged it in order to protect the property and wealth they had accumulated.
Claimed that monogamous marriage allows members of the bourgeoise to ensure their fortunes are inherited by ther direct descendents.
The rich stays rich and the poor stays poor.
maintaining the wealth within the elite.
Louis Althuser (1971)
Argued that in order for capitalism to survive people must be taught how to think and behave.
The family are the best mechanism for doing this.
Family helps to reproduce the ideological state apparatus (ISA)