marx, family, subculture

[marcelina44]

Hi Comrades,

I need some help. I'm writing a paper on Marx, the Family, and how he influenced subculture lifestyles today.

any ideas?

thank you so much.

[JazzRemington]

Marx didn't write much on family, I think. But Engels did, I can't recall the name of the work though.

[marcelina44]

Yes, thank you. I forgot to put that in my question. I have a tricky question- how has Marx influenced subculture living today. Even if it is abstract or stretched. I wrote about family under communsim, and now I need to cover Marx and today's subculture.

thank you so much, any help is appreciated

[Dr Mindbender]

Originally posted by [email protected] 25, 2007 11:11 pm
Hi Comrades,

I need some help. I'm writing a paper on Marx, the Family, and how he influenced subculture lifestyles today.

any ideas?

thank you so much.
Marx had his own wife, and children so he obviously wasnt opposed to the 'traditionalist' view of the family.

[marcelina44]

thank you Ulster Socialist. That was a good point to include. Does anyone have any theories on how Marx has influenced subculture lifestyles today?

[AmbitiousHedonism]

Originally posted by [email protected] 26, 2007 05:18 pm
thank you Ulster Socialist. That was a good point to include. Does anyone have any theories on how Marx has influenced subculture lifestyles today?
IMO German, Dutch & other northern European punk & dropout culture have been heavily influenced by Marxism -- squatters, travelers, etc may not have read Marx but they're an outgrowth of 70s Leftist resistance. In the same vein Italian (marxist) autonomia from that same period influenced contemporary Italian anarchist & squatter culture.

I think you should research Marxist university professors as a subculture. Conferences, liberal university towns, etc.

And obviously the activist subculture is heavily indebted to marxism.

[marcelina44]

thank you those are great starting points, some i haven't thought about. the hard part is tying it all in, etc.

thanks again.

[bolshevik butcher]

Originally posted by Ulster Socialist+September 26, 2007 04:19 pm--> (Ulster Socialist @ September 26, 2007 04:19 pm)
[email protected] 25, 2007 11:11 pm
Hi Comrades,

I need some help. I'm writing a paper on Marx, the Family, and how he influenced subculture lifestyles today.

any ideas?

thank you so much.
Marx had his own wife, and children so he obviously wasnt opposed to the 'traditionalist' view of the family. [/b]
In the origins of the state family and private property Engels writes largely about how the famuily is a product of the eocnomic mode of productions that governs society at that time. Marx did live in a traditional family set up but that doesn't mean that he didn't view the family inistelf as being an oppressive structure that subjegates women in particulary and is used by capitalism to generate the next generation of workers. James Conolly famously discribed ahousewife as a "slave of a slave", clearly this isa product of the family structure.