While I agree with your larger point, we do not only help others that are our kin. We do not have gene detectors that can tell us how closely related somebody is to us. We help and live with animals that aren't even members of our species and vice versa.
The issue is the small size of the group, not the genetic similarity of its members.
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So, uncompensated work for family members is *not* going to be the model we're looking for when we're trying to build socialism. Helping kith and kin is as ancient as the first colonies of communal algae, and is not going to be of use for assisting those not genetically close to us. By contrast, altruism due to reciprocity is a better fit for a non-capitalist society. We're going to have to think of ways to encouraged that kind of "you scratch my back, I scratch yours" behavior. This will require more creative thinking than quoting chapter and verse from "The Critique of the Gotha Program".
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