The tyanny of the biological family

Shulamith Firestone was a radical feminist and apparent anti-natalist at heart. She wrote a book that included challenging the burden of child-bearing and -rearing on the female of the species, saying that we have the drive and technology to overcome our biology. Her ideas are way out there but still very interesting to read, especially if you're a woman and ever feel like you've been fucked over by the genetic and cultural lottery. Here's a sample:

So that just as to assure elimination of economic classes requires the revolt of the underclass (the proletariat) and, in a temporary dictatorship, their seizure of the means of production, so to assure the elimination of sexual classes requires the revolt of the underclass (women) and the seizure of control of reproduction: not only the full restoration to women of ownership of their own bodies, but also their (temporary) seizure of control of human fertility - the new population biology as well as all the social institutions of child-bearing and child-rearing. And just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist movement, not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally...The reproduction of the species by one sex for the benefit of both would be replaced by (at least the option of) artificial reproduction: children would born to both sexes equally, or independently of. either, however one chooses to look at it; the dependence of the child on the mother (and vice versa) would give way to a greatly shortened dependence on a small group of others in general...The tyranny of the biological family would be broken.

...Marx was on to something more profound than he knew when he observed that the family contained within itself in embryo all the antagonisms that later develop on a wide scale within the society and the state. For unless revolution uproots the basic social organisation, the biological family - the vinculum through which the psychology of power can always be smuggled - the tapeworm of exploitation will never be annihilated. We shall need a sexual revolution much larger than - inclusive of - a socialist one to truly eradicate all class systems.

https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/firestone-shulamith/dialectic-sex.htm

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"[GFG's pregnancy is] kind of like at the stables where that one dumb, ugly-ass mare broke out of her corral one day and got herself screwed by the equally fugly colt that was due to be gelded the same afternoon."- Shiny

Those who want to live under any kind of system resembling Marxism ignore the facts: 1. Marxism does not empower the individual. The person is merely a cog of a larger totalitarian system. 2. These societies promise a utopia, but slowly disintegrate into bread lines, violence, and social disorder, usually within a few generations. (See: Cuba, USSR, Venezuela, North Korea, etc., etc. 3. These societies rely not on free will but on government force to accomplish anything.

Yes, the USSR did have abortion-on-demand. But by the end everything else about that way of life sucked big time. And other socialist "Utopias" have done the opposite, some pushing for reproduction against the will of the individual. (See: Romania)

Various forms of Marxism have been tried. So far, all have failed or are currently in a state of failure. Handing rights of your body, your person, your will over to government is a very bad idea. Even if the current regime is friendly to your way of thinking, there's no guarantee the next regime will be. Women and men need to be demanding MORE freedom, not less

Well S54, my purpose in posting this was not to promote Marxism, as I feel it's a system as full of holes as capitalism. I like the author's take on women finding equality through the elimination of child-raising. Perhaps communal orphanages aren't the answer and technology will offer a new freedom.

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"[GFG's pregnancy is] kind of like at the stables where that one dumb, ugly-ass mare broke out of her corral one day and got herself screwed by the equally fugly colt that was due to be gelded the same afternoon."- Shiny