ME O'Brien on family abolition in the longue durée

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Rabbles

Alexander Stoffel and Felix del Campo

8 episodes

6 days ago

Rabbles is series of talks with radical thinkers and agitators who are pushing the boundaries of revolutionary queer praxis. The conversations are for anyone who wants to learn more about histories of queer social movements, and their contributions to contemporary socialist and communist politics. It aims to bridge the ever-widening gap between queer scholarly knowledge production within the academy and activist sites. Watch the episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjb7ZA9lxji0R5stAcLaqEA

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ME O'Brien on family abolition in the longue durée

Rabbles

38 minutes 48 seconds

4 years ago

ME O'Brien on family abolition in the longue durée

In this episode, ME O'Brien charts the history of projects to abolish the family from Marx and Engels in the mid-19th century till today. We discuss transformations of the family under capitalist development, anti-racist critiques of family abolition, working-class solidarity, and the contradictions of prefigurative politics.

You can find all of her work at www.michelleestherobrien.com.

🦋 NAVIGATION 🦋

1:14 — A brief history of the working-class family
10:46 — The Black family as a source of resistance to oppression
16:55 — Family aspiration as fracturing working-class solidarity
23:28 — Queer communes and prefigurative politics
29:50 — Against functionalism

🦋 FURTHER RESOURCES 🦋

To Abolish The Family (ME O'Brien): https://bit.ly/3cA1QUZ
Abolish The Family! (Red May TV): https://bit.ly/2PFv0sw
Communizing Care (ME O'Brien): https://bit.ly/3w8gTNe
Kayla Puan Interview Transcript (ME O'Brien): https://bit.ly/3sAMrci

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