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Earlier this week the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) uploaded to YouTube the video of a panel discussion from its annual Socialism Conference, held in Chicago over Independence Day weekend. For those who hear the term democratic socialism and picture happy Scandinavians living their best lives instead of being chewed up in a capitalist rat race, it’s worth noting that the discussion featured open calls for the abolition of the nuclear family in the United States.
No surprise there. The DSA is not a separate political party but aligns with far Left Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (until they determined she wasn’t pro-Hamas enough) and Independents like lifelong communist Bernie Sanders. Like the Democrat Party itself, the DSA has become increasingly radical with younger generations over the last half century. Their anti-family stance aligns with Karl Marx’s imperative to abolish the family, which is essential to the establishment of his collectivist utopia. Why is it essential? Because Marx and the DSA view the nuclear family to be – as the video description on YouTube declares – “an inherently repressive, racist, and hetero-sexist institution that functionally reinforces and reproduces capitalism.” So it must be deconstructed, dismantled, and discarded on the ash heap of history.
The panel, titled “The Left and the Family: A Roundtable,” took place on July 4, while patriotic Americans everywhere were celebrating their freedom from tyranny. Socialist ideologues have no time for such unserious recreation; after all, they have an entire, deeply entrenched system of oppression to tear down. As my friend, author Michael Walsh, is fond of pointing out, “The Left never stop, they never sleep, they never quit.”
The all-female panel featured speakers Emily Janakiram of New York City for Abortion Rights, University of Chicago sociologist Eman Abdelhadi, Katie Gibson of the University of Chicago, and long-time BDS activist and Portland DSA member Olivia Katbi. As an aside: of course she is a BDS activist, because the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement designed to permanently destroy Israel as a Jewish nation-state has in recent years become one of the more prominent intersectional goals of socialism; at the DSA national convention in August 2017, for example, the organization passed a resolution explicitly affirming “solidarity with Palestinian civil society’s nonviolent [!] struggle against apartheid, colonialism, [and] military occupation, and for equality, human rights and self-determination.”
In the video (the comments section of which has been turned off, unsurprisingly, because the Left is totalitarian at heart and doesn’t tolerate opposing opinions), Abdelhadi declared that she and her fellow socialists are in a “reactionary, fascist moment” and must keep their eyes on the prize of a “radical liberatory horizon” in which food, housing, education, and child care are collectivized – just as Marx envisioned. She stated that black women and “indigenous communities” – groups that she claimed are “disposable to capitalism” – have already modeled this and the rest of the world should follow suit, as if this sort of collectivization is such a rousing success. She didn’t mention that a disproportionate number of black women have been forced to model this way of life because there is no husband and father in the home, which has proven disastrous for the black community and society at large.
Katie Gibson championed the liberation of children from the legal authority of parents, saying, “If you are born into a home headed by a Christian fundamentalist tyrant, for instance, you have [only] the rights that that Christian fundamentalist tyrant gives you.” Imagine if she had said “Muslim fundamentalist tyrant” — her DSA card would be revoked.
Janakiram questioned the very legitimacy of marriage, invoking a quote from Burkina Faso revolutionary Thomas Sankara: “The only real difference between marriage and prostitution is the price and duration of the contract.” She also asserted, “The institution of marriage can only exist alongside the criminalization of sex workers,” adding, “Women lead the fight against capitalism and imperialism, period.”
“I’m ambivalent about whether we use the F word [family] or not,” Abdelhadi said. “But I think for me it’s about focusing on policies, right? And being really clear about what material benefits we are gonna give people.” She emphasized that the Republican Party provides people with a “narrative,” and that the Left must offer a competing one with clear policy aims. She later lauded the far-Left proposals of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, an avowed communist, saying, “All of that stands out for me as the kind of work that we need to be doing.”
During the Q&A segment of the discussion, one self-identified Baptist minister from Austin, a DSA member, told the panel he wants to be able to “perform abortions at a church” as part of the “revolutionary horizon.” What kind of demonic dream is this? What kind of church tolerates such a satanic saboteur as its minister? What kind of political movement embraces such a dark vision?
Activists like these at the DSA are in thrall to the most destructive atheist ideology known to history, but they are very serious, very committed, and chafing at the bit to overthrow the bourgeois status quo and to reach that utopian “liberatory horizon,” which includes the dissolution of family bonds so that mothers and fathers can commit themselves fully to the service of the state, while the children are raised by random adults in the “collective.” MAGA Americans are currently riding a wave of successes under the transformative Trump administration, but we must be on guard against complacency and over-confidence lest anti-capitalist revolutionaries like the DSA build momentum. New York City, after all, seems poised to elect a Muslim communist, who openly calls for seizing control of the means of production, as its next mayor.
Speaking of communism: “democratic socialists” can blather all they want about distinctions between communism and the much more palatable-sounding democratic socialism, but the end result of both is and always will be the same: an authoritarian government overseeing mass misery and murder for a populace stripped of private property and individual liberties. The liberatory horizon they dream of is a mirage obscuring a hellish future.
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DO not confuse insanity with Evil.
Your point is essential to clear thinking and restoring civilization. Mr. Tapson often conflates evil with insanity. They are different and should not be confused. I think Dennis Prager did an excellent job explaining the difference in one of his 5-minute videos:
https://www.prageru.com/videos/is-evil-rational
Some, maybe but they’re not all insane or evil. Most are just gullible low IQ dimwitted sheeple afflicted with a herd mentality.
General George S. Patton once said that if everyone is thinking the same thing then obviously no one is thinking. That’s this crowd and the ilk.
https://studio.youtube.com/video/vlr9-8aoRpw/edit
“The only real difference between marriage and prostitution is the price and duration of the contract,” and the fact that pimps dom’t work themselves to death supporting prostitutes and their children; they don’t put the childre of prostitutes through college; they don’t spend years caring for prostitutes who have been incapacitated by disease
And prostitutes can’t sue pimps for “child” support, which is actually ex wife support. They aren’t legally obligated to spend a single penny on the kids.
Leftists want to abolish the family? Fine by me.
That will mean no babies being created. And your replacement rate will whither to zero.
Perfect.
Abolishing the family does not mean not having children. Instead, it is an attack on the nuclear family, which Karl Marx advocated for. Bad Lies Matter called for the disruption of the nuclear family. Given that the nuclear families constitute about only 30% of all black families, no one should be surprised about the negative consequences those on the left would have us ignore.
No word yet if the panelists would address the evidence provided in the book Two-Parent Privilege.
Actually, 80% of blacks are born out of wedlock.
As I said, you are a servile low rent jew hating moron who is basically a one trick pony with your gay joke habit. Is that the Muslim’s idea of being clever and intelligent.
No wonder you get censored. How’s your Huckabee project coming along, assling?
Having a family and raising children, buying a house and paying off a mortgage: anathema to the younger generation who will vote for socialists because life will be so much cheaper and easier. They deserve the rude awakening when it comes.
Now that is what I call and “Extinction Level Event” As a matter of fact, as long as it’s democratic socialists advocating for their own extinction, they have my full support.
It’s evidence in support of my theory of “addition by subtraction.” That is to say, the world becomes a better place when leftist miscreants are terminated (self terminated or otherwise) and thus removed from the human gene pool.
If there’s anything I can do to help expedite their extinction, just say it and I’m there…!!
These are the kind of screwballs to stay away from no one should even touch them with a 10 foot pole or ever 39 and half foot pole
Although Mr. Tapson correctly notes the comments section of the Youtube page for this series has been turned off, the series has been reproduced on X and comments are visible (and interesting).
https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1951834475609919773
Just wait long enough and they will all be gone. Humanity without a background of love disappears.
In case there are those who have forgotten what love looks like, I offer the following popular Israeli YouTube videos of the same song for your perusal. Your can turn off the sound and just watch the interactions.
Amen on the Children
Joseph Heartland – Thank you for these very enjoyable
videos. – especially the last one. That one both enthralled
and just blew me away. Throughout my long lifetime, I
never saw anything like it. Where hundreds of Jewish
people gather to sing so lovingly about their children. One
can’t help being reminded by this of the never-ending worry
for their children that Israelis endure because of Islamic
terrorist attacks – and that it was these same people – and
their children – sadistically targeted and butchered by
Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.
For an article about the Communist efforts to destroy the
family in America – you couldn’t have picked a more apt
video to drive home an example of what family actually
means to people.
They’re not insane, just orthodox communists. All of this is communist boilerplate ideology; nothing new or inventive since 1883. That’s 142 years of “progress” for progressivism. They still hate families, as demonstrated by waging war on the children, by abortion and sexual mutilation.
And yes, they’re honest (oddly enough) when they say they want to “seize” power. As for being “democratic”socialists … there is no such thing. The “democracy” will be “one-person-one-vote … one-time”. They also admit they hate religion especially Christianity. They don’t really need the space in churches to do the abortions. They have enough clinics. The point is to pollute the holiness of the sanctuary. (Note they don’t propose doing this to any mosque.)
Kenneth Minogue once wrote: “When your leaders start taking Marxism seriously, run for your lives. Millions have done so, but survival is only to the swift.”
Any time a leftist uses the word “democratic,” what they really mean is “mob rule.” And as the saying goes, “democracy is two wolves and a chicken discussing what’s for dinner.” Even our Founders recognized that a pure democracy eventually becomes the tyranny of the majority.
Tyranny BY the majority.
Democratic socialist is an oxymoron. There is no democracy in socialist society.
There’s no democracy anywhere and never has been.
Another sign that they’re crazy is that all of the panelists are still wearing masks four years after Covid.
Masking was required to attend the conference. Covid might have been the excuse, but at this point, I don’t think it’s the real reason.
Communists like Obama and Biden and the bitches discussed in
this article want unaffordable housing and food costs and out of
control crime and a saturation of illegal immigration to strip
community resources at all levels – because downtrodden people
find their appeal more palatable.
That appeal being “Stop struggling. Stop suffering. Communism is
here to provide everyone with housing, food, education and health
care. So we don’t need the family which generates that evil, selective
capitalism. We’re all in this together and we’ll raise our children together.”
The Founding Fathers were right. Even in the collective setup of a
Communist utopia – there will be those running the show aka The State
or The Party or Big Brother. And those doing their bidding ‘for the good
of all’. The setup being tyranny as it’s been since the beginning of time
until the Founding Fathers said – for the first time in human history – we
will have government only with the consent of the governed. And who
established private property rights because they knew anyone having
control over what to do with your possessions would have control over
you.
It means you’ll own the toothbrush we say you can own – and eat the
food we say you can eat. You will own nothing. And . . . you will be
happy?
The only people for destroying the nuclear family are people who come from dysfunctional families because that’s all they know. It’s like a woman who goes from one abuser to another and states all men are misogynistic mental and physical abusers of women. Well that opinion comes from being psychologically dysfunctional and being trapped in a cycle of one’s own making.
A person who grew up with functional parents would not become an adult whose life’s mission would be to see the end of the nuclear family. In fact it would be the opposite, such a person would be pushing for the healthy dynamics of family life to create social cohesion and societal stability.
As the old saying goes, misery loves company and these anti-family nutcases have found each other – that’s it.
An attack against the God of Heaven and of Creation. Communists continue to be evil raising their wicked fists at God–the LORD holds them in derision and laughs at their folly.
“[Romantic] love, if it occurs [in primitive societies], is sometimes more severely regulated than sex. (Of course, in many instances there is not even a word for “love” in any sense approximating our own.) Individual attachments are evidently seen as threatening to tribal values and tribal authority.
We need to note that the issue is not primitiveness as such, but the tribal mentality. One encounters it again in the technologically advanced society of George Orwell’s 1984, where the full power and authority of a totalitarian state is aimed at crushing the self assertive individualism of romantic love. The contempt of 20th century dictatorships for citizens desire to have a “personal life,” the characterization of such a desire as “petty bourgeois selfishness”, is too well known to require documentation.
The tribal mentality, ancient or modern, tends to regard romantic love as socially subversive, as somehow threatening to the welfare of the tribe — that is, society.” – Nathaniel Branden, The Evolution of Romantic Love
Well, Natty should know. He was dumb enough to hook up with Ayny who was cheating on her husband and he got dumped himself after a while. I wonder what behavioral rule he violated in her world.
Ayny was a real catch wasn’t she T.
You really should find better heroes to emulate. you know, like ones who don’t cheat on husbands and wives
Heroes to emulate? Like the the loser Jesus of Nazareth who never had sex in his life? And got crucified for being a delusional heretic Jew? LOL!
So you are saying your heroes are a woman who cheated on her husband with N. Brandon. And, ultimately, he couldn’t wait t0 get away from the w(b)itch.
You are starting to sound like the two biggest idiot Jew Haters on this site. I always knew you were, deep down.
And just to pour a little truth on your pathetic sarcasm, Jesus has always had bigger following worldwide than Aynus and Brandy, for about 2000 years. Objectivism goes back, what, about 50 years, if that.
BTW, Did you ever have actual sex or did you have to pay for it. Considering what a crashing bore you are I would bet you are still a virgin. Although some of your boring posts on the topic of love are always a hoot.
Say that to His face! Dare ya!
You’re a real A – Hole aren’t you ,!?!
They are less than perfect human beings. Shocking! When has that ever happened before? It follows logically that anything they have ever written is nonsense. All that crazy talk about the benefits of capitalism is bad enough by itself, but once you consider Ayn Rand’s position on tariffs you realize that she’s more of a “wacky nut job” than Ann Coulter.
Help us. What U.S. President has been divorced the most? Is he anyone’s hero?
Name all (i.e. both) of the U.S. Presidents who have been divorced.
Oh look! The loonies have arrived!
Democratic Socialists of America(Useful)Idiots) call f or end to the Tadeonal American Family