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Marxism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Changes in society have meant some focus more on emotional relationships in society than work.
- - - - -Ideological state apparatus-institutions that spread bourgeois ideology and ensure that the proletariat is in a state of false class consciousness.
- - - - However this means that the family serves as a prop to capitalism by reducing labour power at no cost to the capitalists and makes alienation more bearable.
      - The private life of family was experienced as more fulfilling than public life in the workplace.
        
        However believes the family is unable to care for the psychological and personal needs of individuals
        
        'It simply cannot meet the pressures of being the only refuge in a brutal society.'
  - - - The family consumes the products of capitalism and this allows the bourgeoise (the ruling class in capitalism) to continue producing profit
        
        Zaretsky believes that only a more equal socialist society will end the artificial separation of family private life and public life and allow the possibility of personal fufillment.
- - - - The family is simply the means by which property could be passes down generations
        
        This meant that marriage became little more than a relationship to increase in wealth and property
    - - Women were having more children to perform more labour and became tied to the household.
      - The family is therefore designed to control women and protect property.