NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Marxists argue that the nuclear family performs ideological functions for Capitalism – the family acts as a unit of consumption and teaches passive acceptance of hierarchy. It is also the institution through which the wealthy pass down their private property to their children, thus reproducing class inequality.

Detailed explanation-2: -Zaretsky does not believe that the family is able to provide for the psychological and social needs of the individual. Whilst cushioning the effects of capitalism it perpetuates the system and cannot compensate for the general alienation produced by such a society.

Detailed explanation-3: -Engels argued that family had a clear economic function for capitalism, by ensuring that wealth remained in the hands of the bourgeoisie. Family relations, based on clear legal contracts, facilitate inheritance and therefore when rich people die it is their children who keep hold of their wealth.

Detailed explanation-4: -In a sense, it is Marx’s three-volume work Capital (1867–1894; sometimes known by its German title, Das Kapital), as a whole that provides his “definition” of the capitalist mode of production.