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The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its

complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of

capital.

Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of

children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations,

when we replace home education by social.

And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by

the social conditions under which you educate, by the

intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of

schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention

of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character

of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence

of the ruling class.