But in our day this possibility is increasingly becoming realized. Families without fathers are obviously a much larger percentage of families than they were fifty years ago. Why has this happened?
It is tempting to put much of the blame upon feminism—and I would not deny that feminism deserves much of the blame. Many of the ideological or legal factors which have undermined fatherhood and the family, such as no-fault divorce, were in part at least the result of feminist influences. But feminism worked hand in hand with another ism, an ism sometimes thought to be at odds with feminism, but that is in fact its natural ally. This is capitalism...
I hope that my readers are as appalled by this as I am. In Townsend’s vision of the family, personal relations count for nothing, mothers are primarily servants of the corporation, their kids don’t miss them when they’re away, and husbands are disposable inconveniences. Although when it was published in the early 1970s Up the Organization was viewed as something daring and radical, it is radical only in the sense that it lays bare the root logic of capitalism.
I hope that my readers are as appalled by this as I am. In Townsend’s vision of the family, personal relations count for nothing, mothers are primarily servants of the corporation, their kids don’t miss them when they’re away, and husbands are disposable inconveniences. Although when it was published in the early 1970s Up the Organization was viewed as something daring and radical, it is radical only in the sense that it lays bare the root logic of capitalism.
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