The attack on the family

Feb 3, 2023 by

by Campbell Campbell-Jack, A Grain of Sand:

The first of a three part look at the importance of the family.

To destroy something totally you need to undermine its foundations; when the foundations are gone the rest of the structure falls.

According to Lenin, who should know, destruction requires two elements: a small group of vanguard thinkers who are convinced they know better than everyone else, and a much larger group of fellow travellers who don’t really understand the vanguard’s endgame, the people Lenin termed ‘useful idiots’. This is the situation we face in the West today, the destruction of society as we know it.

Christians should be especially aware of this. The family, which constitutes the foundational social structure of the West, is built around a specifically Christian understanding of life, as I hope to show in Part 3.

The Vanguard Thinker

A representative figure of the New Left is Sophie Lewis. A feminist theorist and darling of the far-left intelligentsia, she has an interest in ‘queer communism’ and has written widely on the dangers of the nuclear family and how it should be abolished. Her works include ‘Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation’ and ‘Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family’.

Lewis considers parental love to be no more than ‘a shitty contract pretending to be biological necessity’. She thinks that the family ‘frankly, sucks. It genders, nationalises and races us. It norms us for productive work. It makes us believe we are “individuals”.’ For the far-left intelligentsia, knowing there are two distinct genders, having a defined nationality, racial identity and gainful employment, and especially believing that we are individuals are all bad things.

Lewis’s proposals are not only dangerous but sinister. She talks of ‘children’s liberation’: the child must be freed from the parent’s ‘fascist obsession’ with ‘the innocent, de-sexualised, fertile child’. Children should be made aware of the multiplicity of sexual practices available. In the left-wing utopia the nuclear family is abolished, nobody has a job, and children will be available for sex. If you don’t go along with this, Lewis considers you a fascist.

We may think her opinions absurd but Lewis is no marginal figure: her ideas are influential and are seen emerging all over our culture. In the UK University of London professor Michele Barrett, and Mary McIntosh ‘a sociologist whose work on gender and sexuality shaped a generation’ wrote ‘The Anti-Social Family’. In this they present a vision of complete nihilism boldly stating, “We hope that by now it will be clear that we would put nothing in the place of the family.”

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