no more simplistic than the claim that the family can only be reactionary!
some folks have noticed that allegiance to one's family and small scale socializing institutions has been a bulwark against economic and state power. e.g., when fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters rise up and revolt against a state that sends their children, husbands, and siblings off to war. from there resistance can be radicalized further. but to put people down for their allegiances and then to assume that abstract large scale socializing institutions like public education are somehow not reactionary are to ignore eggs benedict anderson's (heh) _imagined communities_