Why do Communist Countries Approve Of Families?

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This is mainly directed at @Balu , I was going to make it a private message, but decided to make it public in case other board members are interested.

I have known a number of full-fledged hammer-and-sickle Communists in my time. A curious detail has come to mind. I noticed that in Communist countries such as Vietnam, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union that families are featured in government propaganda. However, Marxism considers the family as a hindrance to women's equality. It further specifies that children should be raised by the state, with parents serving only as assistance.

Decades ago when I was searching for a wife, I met a Brazilian Music Major when visiting an old professor at the University of Missouri. That Brazilian was preparing to head home for the Summer and was busy shopping for flights home. To my surprise, she offered to let me drive her from St. Louis to Miami, making it clear that the deal had certain "benefits". During the four days that I spent with her, I learned that she and her parents were active members of the Communist Party of Brasil (PC do B). She told me that she considered families nauseatingly bourgeois. She hoped to have a child without being able to know who the father was. She warned me to take precautions if I didn't want to contribute to her effort to raise a little Communist without a father. I never forgot that and don't think I had ever met anyone so radically Marxist in my life.


Consider the following:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/kol...ism-family.htm

The family breaks down as more and more women go out to work. How can one talk about family life when the man and woman work different shifts, and where the wife does not even have the time to prepare a decent meal for her offspring? How can one talk of parents when the mother and father are out working all day and cannot find the time to spend even a few minutes with their children? It was quite different in the old days. The mother remained at home and occupied herself with her household duties; her children were at her side, under her watchful eye. Nowadays the working woman hastens out of the house early in the morning when the factory whistle blows. When evening comes and the whistle sounds again, she hurries home to scramble through the most pressing of her domestic tasks. Then it’s oil to work again the next morning, and she is tired from lack of sleep. For the married working woman, life is as had as the workhouse. It is not surprising therefore that family ties should loosen and the family begin to fall apart. The circumstances that held the family together no longer exist. The family is ceasing to be necessary either to its members or to the nation as a whole. The old family structure is now merely a hindrance.

The state is responsible for the upbringing of children

But even if housework disappears, you may argue, there are still the children to look after. But here too, the workers’ state will come to replace the family, society will gradually take upon itself all the tasks that before the revolution fell to the individual parents.