The parent-child relationship is going to be a transactional one so long as there is property, which precedes capitalism. The purest expression of this shouldn’t be viewed as exceptional, but rather as the penultimate moment in this historical dialectic. Otherwise you are going to get ‘retvrn to extended family’ reactionary socialism instead of family abolition.
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The parent-child relationship is going to be a transactional one so long as there is property, which precedes capitalism. The purest expression of this shouldn’t be viewed as exceptional, but rather as the penultimate moment in this historical dialectic. Otherwise you are going to get ‘retvrn to extended family’ reactionary socialism instead of family abolition.
I was gonna say wouldn’t this be even more true in a pre-capitalist agrarian society where one basically births employees?
People act differently under scarcity than when they have their basic needs met