The same process destroying the family was generating proletarian solidarity

Evidence

Social development is destroying … the healthy family, the only locus of immediate relations between human beings across wide classes of society, above all in the lower middle classes and working class. Instead of natural groupings, which are largely unaware of themselveswhose most recent product of decay, the nuclear family, is now on the brink of perishing as wellsocial development sets up, within certain groups of the proletariat, new, self-aware associations based on a recognition of common interests… The emergence of this proletarian solidarity results from the same process which is destroying the family. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 472

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth investigating whether this family-destruction/solidarity linkage was ever empirically demonstrated or stayed a theoretical hope.
• XREF: connects to: Marx saw both bourgeois and proletarian families as distorted by commodity and exploitation. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 410; Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them; Simulacral war causes identical suffering while losing ideological stakes — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 138 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them #contradicts (0.82)
• Colonial violence against families forged Algerian national unity through shared suffering #corroborates (0.80)
• Marx saw both bourgeois and proletarian families as distorted by commodity and exploitation. #qualifies (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 410
• Execution rituals forged solidarity between the people and petty offenders against power #corroborates (0.73) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 118
• Simulacral war causes identical suffering while losing ideological stakes #expands (0.72) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 138