Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.

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P. J. O'Rourke was a 20th-century American political satirist and journalist. Patrick Jake O'Rourke was an American author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics, cars, etiquette, and economics. His books Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached No. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Family — The ties of kinship, parenting, and unconditional love
  • Marriage — Partnership, commitment, and the journey of shared life

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