Family household was reframed as a site of political discipline

Evidence

Sect. 2. To this purpose, I think it may not be amiss, to set down what I take to be political power; that the power of a MAGISTRATE over a subject may be distinguished from that of a FATHER over his children, a MASTER over his servant, a HUSBAND over his wife, and a LORD over his slave. All which distinct powers happening sometimes together in the same man, if he be considered under these different relations, it may help us to distinguish these powers one from wealth, a father of a family, and a captain of a galley. — , Second Treatise of Government, 11 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The family’s anti-authoritarian elements serve to stabilize existing authority relations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 619; The family sat at the center of nearly every neoliberal policy campaign — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 246; Decades of neoliberal reform reinstated the family as first-line welfare provider — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 260 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Political power differs in kind from paternal, marital, and slaveholding power #complicates (0.80) — , Second Treatise of Government, 11