The marxist perspective on the family

1. The Marxist perspective on the family The Marxist perspective comes from Frederick Engel, which it

stressed on the patriarchal structure of families. Basically Marxism suggests males are the dominant

figure in the whole family. For instance, it's essential to solve the problem of the inheritance of the

private property in order to pass them to their children/heirs; in another words, it's unlikely for women

to be a part of the responsibilities because they've been designed to be controlled by the family in the

Marxist view. The socialisation in the Marxist view is that the family socialise children into accepting

values of capitalism, which to be clear with the status/level within hierarchy. The bourgeois nuclear

family emerged with capitalism, this leads to the patriarchal power of male to be dominating the

inheritance property. Women, on the opposite side, would be powerless for any decisions to be made

within the family but only to obey. Females would have more domestic work at home whilst males are

working, communicating and socialising more outside. They rear children and look after their husbands

due to the non-costly domestic works/choirs. Families also act as a safety valve toward those

bourgeoisie men, which diverts their stress, anger and frustration. Meanwhile, Marxists also state their

perspective of males would be less likely to go on trike throughout families play an important role to

take responsibilities of them. As in unit of consumption, families consume goods and services that

provided by the capitalism. The Marxist view doesn't take in part of the family diversity, they believe

that the nuclear family is determined by our economy nowadays.