On family abolition.

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Amber A'Lee Frost joins us to talk through recent radical proposals to do away with the family as an institution. Author Sophie Lewis claims that "ever since the capitalist victory over the long Sixties, the shout for abolition of the family has been buried beneath a strange kind of shame”, but that now it’s back. Why?

What problems does family abolition address? And how do contemporary accounts sit in relation to earlier radical proposals by the Old and New Lefts?

Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, Sophie Lewis, Verso

Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, Sophie Lewis, Verso

Profile of Sophie Lewis in VICE

Haven in a Heartless World, Christopher Lasch

Vulnerability as Ideology, Peter Ramsay, The Northern Star

The Lockdown Left: socialists against society, Philip Cunliffe, spiked

Anti-Social Socialism Club, Dustin Guastella, Damage