THE EXTENDED FAMILY’S WAR ON INDIVIDUALISM –“communism is a transference to the

THE EXTENDED FAMILY’S WAR ON INDIVIDUALISM

–“communism is a transference to the party state of the moral traits and the regulatory mechanisms of the exogamous community family. Sapped by urbanization, industrialization and the spread of literacy, in short by modernization, the exogamous community family passes on its egalitarian and authoritarian values to the new society. Individuals with equal rights are crushed by the political system in the same way they were destroyed in the past by the extended family when it was the dominant institution of traditional Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese or Serbian society.” —