KARL MARX HATED MARRIAGE, AND MARXISM IS MARRIAGE'S ENEMY!

KARL MARX HATED MARRIAGE, AND MARXISM IS MARRIAGE'S ENEMY

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LifeSite: August 23, 2018 (American Thinker) -

    In its centuries-long efforts to dismantle the load-bearing structures of traditional and classical liberal society, Marx dogma in its various forms - communism, socialism, neo-Marxism, Cultural Marxism - has embarked on sustained campaign to weaken and ultimately to abolish the institution of marriage as it has been commonly understood since time immemorial.

    The dissolution or misprision of marriage, as a contract between a man and woman committed to raising a family and recognizing its attendant responsibilities, is a prerequisite for the revolutionary socialist state in which the pivotal loyalty of the individual belongs to the sovereign collective, not to the family.

 
Advocacy and legislation that sunder the intimate love between a man and a woman, that deprive children of male and female parental roles, that comprise the integrity of the family and that dissolve the purpose of marriage as a guarantor of cultural longevity are indispensable strategies essential to realizing the left's master plan. Dismissing the nuclear family as an archaic and repressive arrangement whose time has passed, the state would then operate in loco parentis.

    The problem for the left is that the family is a traditional dynamic that precedes and eclipses the tenure of the authoritarian state, not only because it encourages a prior allegiance, but because it allows for the retention of inheritance and property rights within the generational unit. This is anathema to the Marxist vision of, in historian Jacob Talmon's phrase from The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, the "all-property-owing system," A function of "political Messianism." The Marxist offensive against marriage may be seen, in part, as the ideological version of a corporate takeover.                                                                                                     

Marx himself married his childhood sweetheart, Jenny von Westphalen, and remained married to her, although his political views did not comport with his lifelong domesticity. In the Communist Manifesto and The German Ideology, he defined marriage as legalized prostitution and a form of female slavery. The fact that he was desperately improvident and ignorant of economics, as Mary Gabriel shows in her fascinating study of the man, Love and Capital, did not prevent him from constructing vast hypothesis grounded on neither hid conduct nor his personal experience.

    Despite his internal contradictions, he was undoubtedly the most instrumental figure in the campaign to demolish the scaffolding of customary society, including marriage and the family. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, by Marx's collaborator and patron, Friedrich Engels, has made the left's ultraist agenda absolutely clear, referring to "the pairing family and inoculated monogamy" as a community of "leaden ennui" and a modus operandi for the class - and masculine-oriented "bequeathment of property." It had to be smashed.

      
An effective way to destroy marriage and the family was advanced by Communist theorist Georg Lukacs, who introduced the concept of "cultural terrorism," which involved the liquidation of religion, monogamy, and the ostensibly male-dominated family. Lukacs advocated the introduction in the schools of - and as minister in the 1919 Hungarian Bolshevik government of Bela Kun actually installed - courses on free love, sexual liberation, and Freud's notion of "polymorphous perversity," which he believed a revolutionary necessity.

    We see his pernicious influence at work in the cultural obsession with sex, the zeal for so-called sex re-assignment, the the insensate proliferation of pronominal "genders" into a Heinz 57 omnium-gatherum. (Canada's Supreme Court whiffling on bestiality if another variant of this rubbish.) It is also a cardinal value in the educational establishment, for example in my home province of Ontario, where, under the direction of former premier Kathleen Wynne, an avowed lesbian, sex ed classes exposed young children to varieties of sexual practices far beyond their level of emotional developmen.                                                                            

Leftism attempts to dismantle conventional society by unleashing a multi-pronged assault against it, including rewriting history, undermining religious observance and subverting traditional morality, a program sedulously advanced by the pseudo-discipline of "Critical Theory." This pedantic and ostentious schematism was promoted by clique of salon provocateurs known as the Frankfort School in their efforts to develop what they called "social emancipatory strategies." They were the answer to the rhetorical question Lukacs asked in his 1916 study "The Theory of the Novel": "Who will save us from Western civilization?"....(All of the above have been successful in changing traditional America.)

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George H. Kubeck