The Marxist Assault on the Family: A Threat to Civilisation’s Core, By Mrs. (Dr) Abigail Knight (Florida)

The far-Left Marxists of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have thrown down a gauntlet that should chill every person to the bone. At their Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, held July 3–6, a panel titled "The Left and the Family: A Roundtable" openly called for the annihilation of the traditional family unit, branding it "inherently repressive, racist, and hetero-sexist" and a tool of capitalism. This isn't a fringe rant from a basement blog, it's a calculated attack on the bedrock of civilisation by a group with growing clout in the Democratic Party. If their vision succeeds, the family's destruction could unravel society, leaving even these radicals starving in the chaos they've sown. Here's why their ideology is a reckless gamble with catastrophic stakes.

The Marxist War on the Family: A Blueprint for Collapse

The DSA's panel, featuring speakers like Emily Janakiram, Eman Abdelhadi, Katie Gibson, and Olivia Katbi, didn't mince words. Their own materials declare the nuclear family "an inherently repressive, racist, and hetereo-sexist institution that functionally reinforces and reproduces capitalism." The term "hetereo-sexism" (likely a typo for "heterosexism") is their slur for the belief that heterosexual norms are natural or preferable, which they claim oppresses non-heterosexual identities. To them, the family, mom, dad, kids, is a capitalist prison that enforces gender roles, racial hierarchies, and economic dependence, and it must be abolished to usher in their socialist utopia.

This isn't new for Marxists. Karl Marx himself wrote in The Communist Manifesto that the family must be dismantled to break capitalism's grip, as it fosters private property and class oppression. The DSA echoes this, arguing that family structures prop up wage labour and patriarchal control. Their solution? Replace the family with state-controlled systems, like universal preschool or communal child-rearing, to sever ties to tradition and "liberate" individuals from "repressive" norms. This is the first step in a Marxist revolution, where radicals destroy societal pillars only to be purged by the regimes they create.

The Mainstream Menace: Not Just Fringe Lunacy

Don't dismiss this as a handful of kooks shouting into the void. The DSA, with over 80,000 members and 239 chapters, is the largest socialist organisation in the US, and its influence is seeping into the Democratic Party's core. Figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Zohran Mamdani, a 2025 New York City mayoral candidate, are DSA members or allies, pushing policies from the Green New Deal to pro-Palestinian stances that align with the group's radicalism. The Socialism 2025 conference, attended by 2,300 activists, including Ivy League professors and union leaders like Bill Ayers and Shawn Fain, shows the movement's reach into academia, labor, and politics. X posts, like @CrushWokeAgenda's on August 4, 2025, call it a "demolition crew with pronouns," warning it's targeting "everything that holds this country together."

The DSA's vision isn't a hypothetical, it's a growing force. Their 2023 National Convention saw Marxist factions gain control of the National Political Committee, shifting the group further Left. Their call to abolish the family aligns with broader pushes for policies like taxpayer-funded "gender-affirming care" or decriminalising sex work, as seen in Mamdani's platform. This isn't a sideshow; it's the future the far Left envisions for America.

The Cataclysm of a Family-Less Society

If the DSA succeeds in dismantling the family, the consequences would be apocalyptic. The nuclear family, despite its flaws, is the oldest, most resilient social unit, fostering stability, emotional bonds, and economic self-reliance. Studies, like those from the Pew Research Center (2021), show children raised in two-parent households have lower poverty rates (10% vs. 40% for single-parent homes), better educational outcomes (90% high school graduation vs. 75%), and lower crime involvement (3% vs. 8% juvenile delinquency). The family isn't just a "capitalist tool," it's a bulwark against societal collapse.

Without it, who raises the next generation? The DSA's vague promises of "communal" systems or state-run childcare, like universal preschool, ignore history's warnings. Soviet experiments with collective child-rearing in the 1920s led to neglected children and social dysfunction, abandoned by the 1930s. Venezuela's socialist collapse left families scavenging for food, not "liberated" by state intervention. If the family is erased, the state becomes the parent, a dystopian nightmare where loyalty shifts from loved ones to bureaucrats. The DSA wants to abolish the family because it competes with the State, and the State represents power that they hope to seize.

And who feeds the Leftists when their utopia crumbles? Their vision assumes endless resources, but a 2024 Cato Institute study shows 62% of young Americans favour socialism, unaware that it historically leads to economic ruin, think Venezuela's 80% poverty rate by 2023. Without families to provide safety nets, a collapsed economy leaves everyone, including radicals, destitute. The DSA's disdain for "family values," mocked as fascist, ignores that these values, love, duty, sacrifice, sustain societies through crises. If civilisation collapses, no one's delivering Uber Eats to their commune.

The DSA argues the family perpetuates oppression, gender roles supposedly trap women, racial hierarchies persist through wealth inheritance, and heteronormativity marginalises non-traditional identities. They point to supposed issues: the US Census (2023) shows women still do 70% of unpaid household labour, and Black families have a median wealth of $24,000 vs. $188,000 for white families. Their solution, replacing families with collective systems, promises equity and freedom from "repressive" norms. They claim policies like child tax credits or free preschool can coexist with family abolition, easing burdens while dismantling outdated structures.

But this is a fantasy built on sand. The family's alleged flaws don't justify its destruction. Inequities can be addressed through reform, equal pay laws, and people getting down and working, without torching the institution that 85% of Americans (Gallup, 2024) say is central to their lives. The DSA's contradiction, pushing family-friendly policies while calling for abolition, reveals their incoherence. Their vision of state-run care ignores the inefficiency of bureaucracies; the US Department of Education's Head Start program, for example, costs $12 billion annually with mixed outcomes on child development (2023 report). Families, imperfect as they are, outperform state alternatives.

The Stakes: A Civilization Without a Foundation

If the far Left gets its way, the West faces a death spiral. Families foster resilience; without them, societies fracture. The DSA's push to abolish the family isn't just anti-capitalist, it's anti-human, stripping away the bonds that hold us together. Crime spikes in unstable communities, FBI data shows 30% higher violent crime in areas with fragmented families (2023). Economic collapse follows; Japan's low birth rate (1.3, 2024) already strains its pension system, a warning for the West's 1.6–1.7 rates. And culturally, erasing the family means erasing identity, 85% of Americans value family traditions (Pew, 2024), not state mandates.

Who feeds the Leftists when their revolution fails? No one. History's littered with Marxist experiments, Soviet Union, Mao's China, where millions starved as collectivism tanked economies. The DSA's ivory-tower radicals, sipping lattes at their Chicago conference, won't survive the chaos they unleash. The absurdity is the point: their ideas collapse under scrutiny.

The Fight to Save the Family

To stop this madness, we must:

Defend the Family: Champion policies strengthening families, tax breaks for parents, affordable housing, school choice. Reject state overreach into child-rearing.

Expose the Radicals: Amplify the DSA's own words, as Libs of TikTok did, to wake up moderates. The 62% of young Americans flirting with socialism (Cato, 2024) need to see its endgame.

Reclaim Politics: Vote out DSA-aligned candidates like Mamdani, whose policies threaten stability. Support leaders who value tradition without bigotry.

Live the Values: Build strong families, teach kids resilience, and reject the Left's narrative that love and duty are "repressive."

Conclusion: The Family or the Abyss

The DSA's call to destroy the family isn't a quirky academic debate, it's a Molotov cocktail aimed at civilisation's heart. Their Chicago panel laid bare a vision where the nuclear family, the West's cornerstone, is branded racist and sexist to justify its obliteration. If they succeed, the fallout, crime, poverty, cultural collapse, will bury us all, Leftists included. No one feeds the ideologues when society crumbles. The family, for all its imperfections, is our lifeline. We must fight to save it, or watch the West burn in the name of a Marxist pipe dream.

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