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Quotes by Christopher Lasch
- The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
- The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
- The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
- The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
- The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
- The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
- The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
- The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
- The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
- The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
- The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
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