Onebrow, the context matters.
Marx, Engels and every Communist movement since has advocated the abolition of the family because they see it as part of patriarchal oppression of the capitalist system, the family unit also is an impediment to the influence and control of the state.
You can argue the semantics of it all day, but this has been and is a primary goal of every Communist agenda. You could also argue that Marx had good intentions in wanting to have the children into the care of the state, but the results in every country where communism is tried, look the same:
" We were seduced into returning to our hometowns in the villages so they could reveal our true identities. Then the genocide began. First, it was the men.
They took my father. They told my family that my father needed to be reeducated. Brainwashed. But my father's fate is unknown to this day. We can only imagine what happened to him. This is true for almost all Cambodian widows and orphans. We live in fear of finding out what atrocities were committed against our fathers, husbands, brothers. What could they have done that deserved a tortured death?
Later the Khmer Rouge killed the wives and children of the executed men in order to avoid revenge. They encouraged children to find fault with their own parents and spy on them. They openly showed their intention to destroy the family structure that once held love, faith, comfort, happiness, and companionship. They took young children from their homes to live in a commune so that they could indoctrinate them."
This country was founded, in part, by avid slavers and land speculators, who felt only white, male land-owners deserved the vote, and even then needed to be controlled. Do you believe that means those are the principles of this country? Or, it is possible that organization do not take on the all of the attributes of some of their founders?
The country is 250 years old, BLM is 6 years old. Its founders are still alive, speaking and organizing - that's a big difference. The ancient wisdom says, by their fruits ye shall know them. The fruits of the American experiment are greater prosperity, freedom and advances in science over the last 200 years (the effects of which have been felt across the world) than at any other time in human history. If African-Americans broke off from the United States and were their own country with their own economy, they'd be the 15th richest nation in the world.
The fruits of the BLM movement include abolishing the police department in Minneapolis.
If passed, the proposal would not automatically dismantle the department, but would be the first step in a long legislative process that would ultimately need popular support by city residents.
nypost.com
They also include the funding cuts and in police departments in Baltimore, New York, Chicago, Ferguson and others. The results have which are a tremendous increase in the number of homicides. Good intentions aside, black Americans are now being murdered at an unprecedented rates across this country thanks to the efforts of Black Lives Matter.
These neighborhoods now have burnt down black businesses with no hopes of re-opening because now it's not only burnt out, but the police are decreasing their patrols of the neighborhoods so it's too high risk to invest in. A lot of businesses are compromised by the new, and much higher price of insurance that you'd have to purchase and with things going up in smoke every time there is a police action, most outsiders don't want to invest in these communities. And most of the black business people that live there can't afford to now.
Recent data from Minneapolis show an increase in shooting crimes but not other crimes, the same pattern as in Chicago in 2016. The likely reason is a reduction in police street stops, just as in Chicago in 2016.
reason.com
Baltimore County has experienced a 52% increase in homicides in the first 10 months of 2019, according to police data — with more than one-third of those killings occurring in two precincts o…
www.baltimoresun.com
Approaching the year’s halfway point, more people have been killed than during 2019, which had the highest homicide rate on record. Arnold Ventures has funded a controversial program to fly surveillance planes over the city.
thecrimereport.org
New data obtained by the ABC7 I-Team reveals a disturbing crime trend across the nation and especially in Chicago.
abc7chicago.com
An average of over 50 gunshots per day have plagued Minneapolis since the police killing of George Floyd led to city- and nationwide protests.
freebeacon.com
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www.nytimes.com
