I can remember the first time I ever saw the Marxists openly suggest we collapse the nuclear family. It was on the Black Lives Matter official website where, among their goals, they listed their aim to "disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and 'villages' that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable."
It wasn't hard to connect the dots as to why they wanted this. The nuclear family is the ultimate authority in a child's life, and if you're an advocate for the state being the highest authority in everyone's lives, you're directly competing for control with mom and dad. It's much harder to convince a kid that Big Brother is an unquestionable leader when the parents are instilling values that directly contradict that idea.
On X, I saw someone reference an article from Current Affairs Magazine titled "Why We Should Abolish the Nuclear Family," and found that this was an article penned by Lily Sanchez back in 2022. I dove into the piece, hoping to find out exactly what the Marxist left thought about the nuclear family, and regretted trying to do so because what Sanchez wrote wasn't an article, but an overly-long screed that reads more like an essay that would win the approval of an OU teaching assistant.
To be clear, the "solution" Sanchez offers isn't really a solution at all. It's more of a nebulous idea of communal child-rearing that she gives, which doesn't really give any specifics besides using government funds to create the proverbial "village" to raise children in. In fact, if you go through a lot of writing centered around this concept, you'll notice very few will get into the nitty-gritty of implementation because doing so starts to sound very dystopian.
But Sanchez did put something into her ADD-inducing piece that I found very illuminating:
The institution of the family—and those who defend it—continues to limit our freedom, as current developments around gender, reproduction, and sexuality show. The federal right to an abortion has been overturned, and we are in the midst of a moral panic as the right promotes false narratives about drag queens and transgender people as sexual predators.
As Robin D. G. Kelley explains in Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, freedom and love are revolutionary ideas, and we need both to imagine a better world. To imagine a society free from the oppression of the family, we need to imagine an expansion of love, not a contraction of it. An inclusivity of love for everyone, not the stifling exclusivity imposed by the family.
Notice this little breakdown here has nothing to do with economics. This is all about repositioning morality and the redefinition of "love."
And this confirms something that I've said about Marxism for some time. All the talk about economic systems, proletariats and bourgeoisie, the billionaires and late-stage capitalism, is all window dressing. It's the easiest and widest door to walk someone through when trying to get them to submit their heart and mind to leftist radicalism.
The real goal is the destabilization and restructuring of the natural order.
Men are women, heterosexuality and family are societal impositions, children are not blessings but tools at best, burdens at worst, hierarchies based on merit are evil, and moral absolutes aren't just hateful, they're social prisons.
All of these things, and a myriad more I didn't list, directly contradict human nature.
Men are not, and can't be, women. Heterosexuality and the blood-related family are features for most mammalian species, especially our own. Children, and our love for them, are some of the greatest driving forces for uplifting humanity. Merit-based systems advance humanity naturally, and moral absolutes stop humanity from falling into entropy through disorder.
Now, I could stop there, but I think it's important to go the last, final step in explaining what Marxism truly is.
It's the rejection of God's established order. It always comes back to Him. Marxism's most hated enemy isn't capitalism, it isn't billionaires, and it isn't corporations. Marxists will happily hoard wealth in the billions and utilize capitalism consistently for their own benefit. The hatred of the system is all virtue signaling.
It's God. That's who they hate most. They hate His rule, His people, and the nature He programmed for this reality. Everything they do is bent on upsetting and restructuring the natural order He established.
You think it's coincidental that almost every leftist attack on our social structure primarily revolves around Christians and Christianity? The forced closure of churches during COVID? The recent attacks on Christian expression during Christmas? The attacks on students who express Christian beliefs in universities? The shootings at Christian schools by transgender shooters? The support of actual anti-freedom and anti-LGBTQ+ theological structures like Islam against Judeo-Christian nations?
Even socialism and communism are systems that work against human nature and not with it, as Capitalism does.
Read: Communism Won't Ever Work, Because the Human Species Isn't Built For It
Marxism is humanity still attempting to build the Tower of Babel. It's humanity still trying to replace God with itself. To be "like the Most High."
That's the dirty secret about Marxism.
