Proposals for a Left Family/Social Welfare Policy. Was: Conservative Promotes Racial Divisions to Undermine Welfare State

Kelley Walker kwalker2 at gte.net
Sat Jul 21 20:49:03 PDT 2001


At 11:28 PM 7/21/01 -0400, Gordon Fitch wrote:
> > Gordon tells us that
> > > The
> > > anarchist Left already has a proposal for family policy: to
> > > allow people to form such attachments as they please,
> > > without interference or coercion, especially by the State.
>
>Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema:
> > This seems as simplistic as most anarchist prescriptions. ...

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_



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