Post-Fordist capitalism both needs and destroys the nuclear family

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 depends on and destroys the family — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 70; Capitalism both depends on and undermines the family simultaneously — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 70; Capitalism’s reproduction requires family, education, and media apparatuses (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-Fordist capitalism both depends on and destroys the family #corroborates (1.00) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 70
• Capitalism both depends on and undermines the family simultaneously #corroborates (0.97) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 70
• Capitalism’s reproduction requires family, education, and media apparatuses #expands (0.85)
• Neoliberal modernisation aimed to destroy non-market sources of social reproduction #expands (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 354
• Neo-neoliberalism’s universalizing reach depends on deliberate destruction and neglect #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1878
• Sustained capitalist mutation requires new institutional forms, not merely destruction #qualifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 156