The family is inherently an obstacle to schemes for central control of social processes. Therefore, the anointed necessarily find themselves repeatedly on a collision course with the family. It is not a matter of any subjective animus on their part against families. The anointed may in fact be willing to shower government largess upon families, as they do on other social entities. But the preservation of the family as an autonomous decision-making unit is incompatible with the third-party decision making that is at the heart of the vision of the anointed.
Thomas Sowell, "The Vision of the Anointed," p.172
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Go to http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6037 for a free download of The One Woman, Thomas Dixon's novel from 1903 about a liberal Protestant pastor in New York City. It has some great quotes from 19th century socialists on how the destruction of monogamous marriage is at the heart of socialism.
Well, one of the first things Communist Russia did was to attempt to do away with the family unit. That's pretty good proof of their heart!
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