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The Dig: The Manifesto w/ China Miéville

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The Politics of Family Abolition

Kinship, families of choice, kinship. And letting kinship be liberated from the constraints imposed upon it by capitalism. Yeah. I really don't care what it's going to be like on the assumption that it will be better. If you don't follow that wager, then why would you be a socialist? But it's like, after 100 years of communism, if someone finds that other special someone, and they really, really want to have,. as a fully-floured human being in a situation of grassroots democracy... The point is it would be doing something very different.

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