Question

Is anyone good with writing prompts? Just a simple paragraph i need to do. "Did the 1960's free women or did they destroy the family?"

Answer 1

OK, ill just give you everything i know. Today, a new women’s movement is being created by the attacks arising out of the renewed crisis of capitalism. The mass response to threats against abortion rights shows that women are mobilizing to fight back. But the April 9 demonstration in Washington also showed that NOW and other establishment leaders are dedicated to legalistic maneuvering and support for capitalist politicians. (An LRP leaflet on this question is available to interested readers.) As bourgeois reformists, they have a vested interest in perpetuating the lie that the capitalist system can still offer substantial progress for women. In contrast to the 1960s, the collapse of prosperity and the deepening economic crisis mean that there is little room for reforms. But the problem with reformism lies deeper: the very nature of capitalism, not just isolated aspects of it, underlies women’s oppression in the modern world. A revolutionary Marxist analysis of the roots of oppression is a necessary starting point for those dedicated to women’s liberation. We will argue here that the proletarian family is a necessity for the capitalist system and is the fundamental source of women’s oppression today. In developing this analysis, we start with the work that is generally considered to present the classic Marxist view on the oppression of women, Frederick Engels’ The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Writing a century ago, Engels traced the enslavement of women to the rise of private property and class society and demonstrated that the eradication of these institutions was necessary for liberation. For all its insights, Engels’ work was flawed by its reliance on faulty anthropological data and an anti-homosexual bias. More significantly for this article, The Origin failed to utilize key elements of Engels and Marx’s analysis of capitalism in relation to the family. The book’s strength is its overview of class society in general. But its discussion of the proletarian family under capitalism is limited, as we shall see. Its a lot of info and its a lot to take in but that's wassup lol.

Answer 2

Lol, could you possibly sum this up a little more?

Answer 3

Yay or Nay

Answer 4

In contrast to the 1960s, the collapse of prosperity and the deepening economic crisis mean that there is little room for reforms. But the problem with reformism lies deeper: the very nature of capitalism, not just isolated aspects of it, underlies women’s oppression in the modern world. A revolutionary Marxist analysis of the roots of oppression is a necessary starting point for those dedicated to women’s liberation.