Socialism&Marxism

5. ELIMINATION OF FAMILY Elimination of family is the fourth main idea of all socialists. It is obvious that it is indispensable in order to erase the past from one’s memory and to turn it into tabula rasa (a clean board) to brainwash a younger generation without hindrance, and to hide the truth forever. The father and mother, grandmothers and grandfathers, when answering questions of curious children may reveal them the existence of other evil and other good that have nothing in common with the socialist dogmas, the truth about the past, that about the life of people in the past, about history, about real heroes and evil-doers. Socialists are therefore willing to take away children from their parents from the smallest age. F. Engels' opinion was as follows: 'Education of all children, since the moment when they can do without the first maternal care, in public institutions and at the expense of the State budget. Education and production together...

2. EQUALITY AND ELIMINATION OF HIERARCHY It is a long time since I paid attention to the following text from the first volume of Capital by Karl Marx: 'Equality and equivalence of all kinds of labour insofar as they are human labour in general, this secret of the expression of value can be deciphered only when the idea of human equality has already acquired firmness of a popular prejudice'. 1 I noticed this phrase as early as in 1981. I read then Marx in the original German and translated it as follows: 'The secret of the expression of value, equality and equivalence of all kinds of labour as and insofar as they are human labour in general can only be deciphered as soon as the notion of human equality already possesses firmness of a popular prejudice (Vorurteil)'. 2 In my opinion, my translation is better than the official one, in which the order of words has not been followed without any tangible ground, nor is there any word-for-...