Should it be abolished?

How should it be abolished?

What it be replaced with? (e.g. a bigger extended family, a commune or phalanstery, or nothing/individualism)

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I want a pod full of other autistic people where we all have space to be alone as well as to be together and can choose when to switch to have our needs met

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meanwhile I want to live such that I never see or, more importantly, hear, another human being unwillingly

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that sounds heavenly. put little a mini kitchen in each apartment for days you don’t feel like showing your face. even if just a hot plate, microwave, little toaster oven arrangement. oh and personal bathrooms. maybe a communal hot tub

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The economy in modern America has already pretty much murdered the family for many Americans. Marriage is seen as the bedrock of the family, and money issues are constantly listed as the #1 reason for divorce, if not then many people get or stay married not out of a need or way to confirm love for another person but to save money on taxes. Communists dont have to kill the superstructural form of the family, the base economic forms will when the proletariat is forced to move away from extended or even close family for work, when the stresses of capital make family a bother to deal with. We already see reports of loneliness and alienation continually increasing.

Perhaps the scariest thought to me about the superstructural issues like this, is that the best way to keep them alive or rejuvenate them would be to instill a communist or socialistic ethic to them. Its the best talking point to give to cultural conservatives, who might otherwise take the “socialism” of the family and keep the capitalist structure. We flirt with fascists in that brief moment.

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