Karl Marx View On Family

Topic of interest: Family Since the 1800’s, Karl Marx has been popular for his philosophical writings. He brought to the table many of ideas and influences in his writings. Some of the key topics that Marx keened in on had to do with alienation and the bourgeoisie. Through critically analyzing these topics, Marx’s ideas can be made clear and related back to society. One topic that I will use to connect Marxism to is family. Marx’s ideas help think of family in a different light and analyze it even further. In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscript of 1844, Marx brings up the topic of alienation. Marx says, “it is clear that the more the worker spends himself, the more powerful becomes the alien world of objects which he creates over and

Throughout history, Marx discusses how the bourgeoisie has been a major influence on capitalist society saying, “It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life” (159). This is a social class that runs by persistently making improvements and changes with the goal of making money. While the bourgeoisie has some good change, Marx says it, “has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation” (158). Marx is saying that the main goal for the bourgeoisie is to make money. He points out more goals of the bourgeoisie that, “Bourgeois marriage is in reality a system of wives in common” (169). Marx is displaying that the bourgeois has an image of the wife being the one who produces the kids, while the husband produces the money. The solution that Marx offers is in a Communist society where he sees there being a community of women (169). The bourgeoisie wouldn’t like Communism, because in this state they wouldn’t be in control, own property and women would be have free