The First Private Property: Mother (Sumer, 3 m. BCE); Chūshingura (Japan, 1748 CE)

The Kingless Generation

The first private property was the body of the woman, with the historic defeat of the female sex and the birth of the father. We catch fleeting glimpses of the extended clan (gens) family as it existed right down to the 20th century among human beings outside class society, then examine the unexpectedly cucked “traditional” family, a perversion of human community specialised to pass down private property and bring class power to bear on its members at the expense of authentic kinship. Like prisons or the police, the family is a product of class society, and there will come a day when we no longer need it, but on the other hand, while we build the Kingless Generation it is probably as necessary a tool as the People’s Army or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Serious revolutionaries have always struggled to go beyond the old family, but attempts to “abolish” it now reflect, at best, some hippie idealism which may have an analysis and a program but lacks an expedient means (Sanskrit upaya) to get us to that goal.

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