Chapter II
'On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain.' Argues the proletarian family has already been dissolved by capitalism.
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From The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Manifesto extends critique to the bourgeois family, arguing it is based on capital and private gain, and rebuts charges that communism advocates 'community of women' by exposing the existing prostitution and exploitation within bourgeois society.
Chapter II
Bourgeois sees in his wife 'a mere instrument of production' -- counters charges of 'community of women' by exposing bourgeois marriage and prostitution.
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Communists do not invent the intervention of society in education but seek to alter its character and rescue it from class influence.
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