The Irish standard., 1914-04-11
Socialists Can See No Reason for
Existence of Family Life
Doctrines Would Destroy Found
ations of Civilization by
Destroying Home
Teachings of Socialism Refuted
Fallacies in Arguments
Shown

The famil.v is defined as a house
hold, living together and under one
head. Thus, the family includes
parents and children. Monogamic
marriage is the legal union of a man
and woman as husband and wife.
Every sensible man, whether Chris
tian. Jew or agnostic, knows, or
ought to know, that the family is
the unit of society and the basis of
our civilization. Marriage and the
family form the cornerstone of the
State. Whoever attacks them is at
lacking society and organized, gov
ernment-all the institutions under
" hich we live.
Does Socialism aim to abolish the
present form of marriage and destroy
the family? That is the question
which l propose to answer in this
article. want to be absolutely hon
est and fair in the treatment of this
subject. I am we'll aware that So
cialism will deny any such intention.
They will point to their political plat
form as the Interpretation of their
principles, which of course is utterly
absurd. Political platforms are
framed to get votes. If we want to
obtain true knowledge of real So
cialism, we must consult the writings
of the founders and leaders of the
movement.
From a close study of the philoso-
ply, principles and literature of mod
ern Socialism, as embodied in the
writings of Marx, Engels, Bebel, Bax,
HERON, Kerr. Debs and others, it is
clearly apparent that one Of the chief
objects of Socialism is the destruc-
ton of the family and the abolition
of marriage.
Robert Owen, a famous English
Socialist. wrote these words fifty
years ago: I'm the new moral world,
the irrationa names of husband and
wife, parent and child. will be heard
no more. All connection will be the
result of affection; the child would
undoubtedly be the property of the
State"
Socialists teach the same doctrine
today all over this broad land. 1t
is true that soap-box orators" do
not preach that doctrine, but these
'Spouters" pirate about everything
but real Socialism.
Read the Manifesto"
The Communist Manifesto, the
joint production of Marx and En-
gels. says:
The family will vanish as a mat
ter of course, when it's complement
vanishes. and both will vanish with
the vanishment of Capital"
Here is another extract from that
precious publication.
The bourgeois sees in his wife a
mere instrument of production. He
hears that the instruments of pro-
duction have to be exploited in COM
mon, and naturally can come to no
other conclusion than that the lot OF
being common to all will likewise
fall to the woman"
Frederick Engels' famous, or rath-
er infamous, work called THE Origin
of the Family" is published by c.
H. Kerr company, of Chicago, and
translated by Ernest Untermann, an
American Socialist.
Untermann in the preface says:
The monogamic family so far
from being divinely instituted 'un-
ion of souls is seen to be the product
of a series of material, and in the
last analysis of the most sordid mo-
tives."
ernest Untermann, Translator, D.
y.
Engels says that marriage of one
man and one woman will disappear
and free love will reign. Listen to
this high priest of Socialism.
I'VE are now approaching social
revolution in which the old economic
foundation of monogamy will dis
appear just as surely as those of it's
complement. prostitution" (p. 81.
And again he says: " ."
"Monogamy was the first form of
the family not founded on natural
but economic conditions, viz: the
victory of private property over prlm-
tive and natural collectivism.
"Monogamy thus does by no
means enter history as reconcilia-
tion of man and wife and still less as
the highest form Of marriage. On
the contrary it enters as the subjuga-
ton OF one sex by the other, as the
proclamation Of an antagonism be-
tween the sexes unknown in all pre-
ceding history" (p. 79.)
by the side of slavery and private
propertyit (marriage) marks at the
same time that epoch which, reach
ing down to our days, takes with all
progress also a step backward. rela-
lively speaking, and develops the
welfare and that the lot of being
common to all will be the advance
ment Of one by the woe and submits
sion of the other" (pp. $4,000
Free Love Would Reign.