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  • Family Abolition

  • Capitalism and the Communizing of Care
  • Written by: M.E. O’Brien
  • Narrated by: Charli Burrow
  • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins

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Family Abolition

Written by: M.E. O’Brien
Narrated by: Charli Burrow
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Publisher's Summary

For some of us, the family is a source of love and support. But for many others, the family is a place of private horror, coercion, and personal domination. In a capitalist society, the private family carries the impossible demands of interpersonal care and social reproductive labor. Can we imagine a different future?

In Family Abolition, author M. E. O'Brien uncovers the history of struggles to create radical alternatives to the private family. O'Brien traces the changing family politics of racial capitalism in the industrial cities of Europe and the slave plantations and settler frontier of North America, explaining the rise and fall of the housewife-based family form. From early Marxists to Black and queer insurrectionists to today's mass protest movements, O'Brien finds revolutionaries seeking better ways of loving, caring, and living. Family Abolition takes us through the past and present of family politics into a speculative future of the commune, imagining how care could be organized in a free society.

©2023 M. E. O'Brien (P)2024 Tantor
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