The Family under Capitalism

Don't worry that drag on revolutionary consciousness, i.e the institution of the sexually monogamous family, is under assault by the capitalist system.

As are all other historically produced bonds which ties us together. The overpowerful imperative to turn everything, physical product or relationship into a commodity to be transacted and profited by, will penetrate every aspect of our existence.

One example of which that I found quite funny is the introduction of credit cards in the collection baskets at churches and the installation of malls in their basements.

Churches in ancient societies were intimately involved in the requirements of social reproduction, just as they do in today's capitalist mode of reproduction.

"In Sumer and later in Babylon, religious rituals involved sacred sexuality in the form of the Sacred Marriage or hieros gamos, an act simulating marriage between the fertility goddess Inanna/Ishtar and the shepherd god, Dumuzi. In this act, the high priestess of Inanna would have intercourse with either the high priest or the king of the city. Through the sexual act, divine fertile energy was released on the land ensuring good crops and productive herds. Sacred prostitution involved temple priestesses of Inanna/Ishtar having ritual sex with male visitors to the temple, again releasing the divine fertile energy."

https://www.historyonthenet.com/sacred-marriage-and-sacred-prostitution-in-ancient-mesopotamia/

I prefer the purity and honesty of that old time religion. How long will it be before a capitalist church puts a brothel in its basement. The leap beyond the prostitution of the minds to that of the body is not a long one.

This negatory process of the Capitalist dialectic actually has a positive long term effect. There is no reason for personal relationship to be defined strictly by the 1 male and 1 female relationship. In a Communist society all kinds of personal relationships will be possible that do no harm to anyone.

In the short run the freeing of the individual from the institution of family to be a revolutionary is a necessary advance. The proletariat must seek love among their comrades and not genetically.

Breaking free of these genetic chains is one more step in become a fully conscious and free individual

Look at the most advanced Capitalist society in the planet, Japan:

"1 in 4 men, 1 in 7 women in Japan still unmarried at age 50: report"

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/05/national/1-4-japanese-men-still-unmarried-age-50-report/#.W3LSBM5KjX4

"Majority of single Japanese men in their 30s have never had relationship with marriage prospects: poll"

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/04/national/marriage-plans-elude-more-than-60-of-single-japanese-men-between-25-and-34-poll/#.W3LSls5KjX4

"The Mystery of Why Japanese People Are Having So Few Babies"

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/japan-mystery-low-birth-rate/534291/

"Why are almost half of Japan's millennials still virgins?"

https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/20/asia/japanese-millennials-virgins/index.html

While Japan leads the Capitalist World in these categories, other similarly advanced capitalist societies are suffering from almost equally sharp demographic assaults.

Capitalism feeds on non capitalist or semi capitalist masses who have not been demoralized by the process itself. A process of extreme alienation and self indulgence in every kind of fetish or what Marxists call lumpenization of the class.

When the lumpenizing rot sets in, it poisons each class in its own way. The respective capitalist society loses its vitality and collapses from within.

Marxism will not break these chains, Nature will!

Marxism is nothing more than a description of natural processes.

What you are complaining about is how Nature is doing it. But for unconscious or semi conscious being such as human society today, Nature can do its job only in the way its is proceeding.

It is curious that how a simple creature like a lion will perform acts of kindness when it is not hungry and then eat it when it does.

It is only our arrogance to believe that we are above Nature's laws.

Karl Marx wrote in the 1872 Preface to the French Edition of Das Kapital (Volume 1), "There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits."

Science is everything and everything has a science.