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Family Abolition Policy Proposals
What makes sense to do before the abolition of capital
...and what comes after that.
Here's what anti-work philosopher Kathi Weeks proposes for reforms which move us further towards a future beyond biological kinship and the mediated scarcity of the family:
Universal Basic Income
Shorter Working Hours
Universal Healthcare
Affordable Housing
I will conclude, with a brief list of possibilities for a political project aimed at lessening the coercive forces that drive people into families and block their exits:
A liveable minimal guaranteed income could provide the economic resources to enable someone to escape an abusive family or to support other household configurations.
Shorter working hours, for example a thirty-hour week, without a decrease in pay could provide somewhat more of the time necessary to care for children, the elderly and others, which adequately funded caring services with well-paid and highly skilled employees could also supplement.
Universal healthcare de-linked from both employment and family membership would give many people more options with regard to waged work, household formation and the relations between them.
Finally, more affordable housing with a range of units that could fit both single residents and a variety of groups could allow some to leave family-based households and support living alone or experimentation with other kinds of domestic arrangements."
-- Kathi Weeks, "Abolition of the family: the most infamous feminist proposal," Feminist Theory, 2021. [Ed.: I made this a list because wonks like a list.]
Other reforms mentioned throughout family abolition literature:
Abolish Family Policing
Abolish Immigration Enforcement
Legalize Abortion
Children's Rights
not Parental Rights
After the Abolition of Capital...
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How Much Will it Cost?
How Much Will it Cost?
Our policy proposals are competitively priced with other massive social overhauls, but ultimately we don't believe in a future where money exists and do believe that the cost of not implementing our agenda is incalculable. NASA tried and their computers were like "holy shit please do communism" so here we are.
Maybe it's worth approaching cost from a different angle. Is giving abused children an escape route from bad caregivers worth more than, say, the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor transport aircraft? That's easy: yes, it is. Is immersing the elderly and disabled in social comfort and care worth more than a nineteenth Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine? Yes, again, not that hard. Is there a number which would delight you, charm you? Or is this something that needs doing regardless of the cost, such as your favorite imperial war or the continuation of Jim Crow?
What Does the Data Say?
What Does the Data Say?
One more study on UBI bro I swear this is the last one we're really gonna get the real results this time brah. The last time was not the right one because the economy was down and that threw everything off we're gonna try again with the economy working for everyone and that should show if the people forgotten by the economy are being served by the economy. Right? I mean, you can't just give people money and expect them to spend it on things that let them survive and get out from under the stress of precarity and enjoy things that would be like hugging a baby when it hasn't made you any money in a while. Silly. Anyway, this time we'll do it, brah. The study is ready to gooo.
The Birth Rate Crisis and What is to Be Done
The Birth Rate Crisis and What is to Be Done
The "birth rate crisis" is not a thing, lol. C'mon.
This "issue" is sheepdogging liberals into accepting a white supremacist premise that whites will be superseded by minorities and the economic fall of the empire unless they engineer a baby boom. So, what is to be done? Nothing.
The biggest anxiety of folks planning a family, to gestate or adopt, is how they're going to afford it. If you earnestly want to support families and children, and don't care what kind of babies are produced beyond the loved and supported kind, making healthcare and housing and childcare and time to spend with your children attainable for all.
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