Capitalism both depends on and undermines the family simultaneously

Evidence

The situation of the family in post-Fordist capitalism is contradictory, in precisely the way that traditional Marxism expected: capitalism requires the family (as an essential means of reproducing and caring for labor power; as a salve for the psychic wounds inflicted by anarchic social-economic conditions), even as it undermines it (denying parents time with children, putting intolerable stress on couples as they become the exclusive source of affective consolation for each other). — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 70

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-Fordist capitalism both needs and destroys the nuclear family — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 70; Post-Fordist capitalism both depends on and destroys the family — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 70; Capitalism’s reproduction requires family, education, and media apparatuses (+7 more)

Related

• Post-Fordist capitalism both depends on and destroys the family (similarity 0.95)
• Post-Fordist capitalism both needs and destroys the nuclear family (similarity 0.93)
• Post-Fordist work conditions undermine the very family values they increasingly depend on (similarity 0.84)
• Mass unemployment isolates families and weakens parental authority (similarity 0.81)
• Reproduction serves an economic function at both societal and family scales (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Post-Fordist capitalism both depends on and destroys the family #corroborates (0.98) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 70
• Capitalism functions by redirecting social reproduction toward its own ends #expands (0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 347
• Decline of middle-class ownership eroded the family’s role and paternal authority #exemplifies (0.85)
• Capitalism’s reproduction requires family, education, and media apparatuses #corroborates (0.82)
• Mass unemployment isolates families and weakens parental authority #exemplifies (0.82) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 438
• Reproduction serves an economic function at both societal and family scales #expands (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1098
• Capitalist profit also depends on unpaid domestic labor #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 106
• Capitalism simultaneously destroys and expands human potential #expands (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 639
• Male economic migrancy disrupts rather than reinforces patriarchal family structures #complicates (0.72) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 880