Traditional Family or the American Socialist Vision of an Extended Family

Having a child while employed by the federal government in the U.S. now seems to be a piece of cake – both the mother and the father get twelve weeks of paid leave to care for their progeny. The rest of the country is lucky if they are able to get six weeks of unpaid leave without actually losing their jobs.

The American Marxists, according to Sarah Leonard, praised the East German communists who “believed strongly in sex education, occasionally of the soft-porn variety, and in “good examples of sex ed and gender-equal social policy.” She also applauded all of the Nordic states that “boast liberal abortion laws.” These social policies are designed for “gender equality.”

Leonard lauded maternal employment rate in Denmark (over 80 percent) and believes that “generous safety nets also ensures that women are not compelled to marry to tolerate men for mere survival.” In her opinion, such welfare allows people to enjoy a higher quality of life than the average American by working fewer hours and spending more time at home. She fails to mention how deeply in debt these Nordic countries are and how high their taxes are.

Leonard believes that the American family of the future will not experience ‘wage exploitation’ and it is imperative to transform our society into a socialist one. She makes the following policy suggestions for “socialist reproductive justice and care:”

1.       Universal twenty-four hour high quality communal child care

Guaranteeing pre-school in Denmark  – providers cannot charge more than a quarter of the cost and those who cannot afford care for their children get it for free. People who understand economics know that nothing is free, someone has to pay for it and that someone is the government through heavy taxation.

I lived in a truly socialist country with a socialist economy and daycare was paid by the Communist Party only for the children of select Communist Party members in good standing, places were limited, and the rest of the country had to care for their own.

American socialists only quote convenient data from countries that are not socialist countries, they are capitalist economies with generous welfare which extends to day care.

Brenner suggested that, in this country, child care be offered as “worker cooperatives.” Parents and ‘other community stakeholders’ would make decisions. Nobody mentions who these community stakeholders are. Boards of education and social services have overstepped their bounds as of late in regards to our children’s education and well-being.

2.       Housing as a human right To solve the dearth of public housing, she suggests that “massive amounts of public housing” be built, supported by “a vast new infrastructure of health and welfare services, clinics, childcare facilities, kindergartens, schools, sports facilities, public libraries, theaters, cinemas, and other institutions.” To have a perfect ‘socialist care,’ elder care would be combined. This would be called ‘collective governance,’ sponsored by labor unions. Leonard sees this as the only way to “democratize daily life and the world of the family.”

3.       Free abortion on demand Socialists advocate “reproductive justice.” Socialism should have abortions in all hospitals, on demand, and doctors well-versed in performing them. The socialist country I experienced did not allow abortion under any circumstance and doctors and women who received abortions were put in jail with harsh sentences. The Communist Party was interested in increasing the numbers of the proletariat and of its cheap and equal labor force.

4.       Ending policing  This is a trend developing in almost every state of the United States, the Marxist Democrats are busy defunding the police while crimes escalate. Socialists want criminal records to disappear and be replaced by health care, mental health care, less poverty, and housing security, “all core socialist goals” of “restorative and transformative justice.”

Socialists do not mention any personal responsibility for poor education choices, family breakdown, violence, and bad choices in general of those who are incarcerated.

A true socialist society takes a hard line on policing, jail time, criminality, recidivism, and other bad choices their citizens make. They are beaten and incarcerated without any benefit of “restorative and transformative justice,” a liberal construct invented and defined by Marxists in the U.S.

5.       Extended family American socialists propose that family be extended to non-traditional family in light of the homophobia and transphobia they perceive as destroying the landscape of our society. A wide range of desirable arrangements will change family forever.

They see men as menstruating and giving birth.  Others want reproductive labor to be outsourced just like manufacturing. In their neoliberal world, socialists want to break away from what they perceive as an ‘austerity state’ into a radical new world of “multiplicitous families.” Shulamith Firestone declared that pregnancy and birth are “gruesome” and would like all babies to be grown outside the body.

But the history of true socialist societies proves that traditional families are still the keystone of biological life.

American socialists and Marxists use all Nordic countries as examples of perfect socialism when in reality these countries are not socialist, they are capitalist economies with generous welfare programs and high taxation both at the corporate level and for personal income tax.

American Marxist educators, not to be left behind, are pushing a full-porn sex education for American public students, starting as early as kindergarten. No amount of parental opposition to this new curriculum seems to make any difference, the Marxist educators are going full steam ahead with their ideological and sexual education of American students of any age.