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Personal Tension: Caring For A Dying Mother
- Lewis wrote about pregnancy labour while caring for her dying mother and felt the tension between love and structural care deprivation.
- She concluded that loving one's family can motivate wanting family abolition to secure better care.
Communal Childrearing Has Deep Roots
- Historical thinkers like Fourier argued communal childrearing to prevent lottery-of-birth fate.
- Lewis traces family abolition ideas through utopian socialism to emphasize collective responsibility for children.
How Capital Turns Love Into Property
- Love under capitalism becomes 'property love' that frames relationships possessively.
- Alexandra Kollontai argued material change is needed to free love to become collective and liberatory.