Family abolitionism is, apparently, a thing.
Enter Sophie Lewis, a feminist critic and author of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, whose favorite type of salad is word salad.
Also, "manifesto"? Doesn't she mean "personifesto"? Misogynist!
Here's a small excerpt of one book review, to give you an indication of her…opinions.
Anchored in a strikingly hopeful feminist Marxism, Lewis leads the reader through a systematic, didactic introduction to the politics and possibilities of cutting ourselves loose from the constraints and impositions of the traditional patriarchal, capitalist family.
"Strikingly hopeful feminist Marxism," said of a 21st century reincarnation of Napoleon from George Orwell's Animal Farm …
If you can find your way through the vocabulary vomit, however, you'll find that Sophie Lewis is just another lunatic stomping her way through society in a campaign to rebrand any concern for the sexual innocence of children as a moral panic derived from Anita Bryant that is actually motivated by homophobia and/or Christian evangelical capitalism.
I speak English. I think I'm pretty good at it. But watching this video made me wonder if I was suffering from sudden onset aphasia, and that my brain was actually just jumbling words together ... or maybe I'm suffering from "Christian evangelical capitalism on steroids," in which case I can't wait for a Marxist cure!
The full 90+ minute interview that was brought to X's attention after a YouTube stream with activist Karlyn Borysenko. Here's the following essay-long tagline:
Drawing on her incisive and vital polemic, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, Lewis will discuss the history of family abolitionist demands, beginning with nineteenth century utopian socialist and sex radical Charles Fourier, the Communist Manifesto and early-twentieth century Russian family abolitionist Alexandra Kollontai. Turning her attention to the 1960s, Lewis reminds us of the anti-family politics of radical feminists like Shulamith Firestone and the gay liberationists, a tradition she traces to the queer marxists bringing family abolition to the twenty-first century. The event will also address historic rightwing panic about Black families and the violent imposition of the family on indigenous communities, as well as contemporary political iterations of these kinds of violence.
And the interview:
Good luck trying to watch all of that.
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