September 15, 2021
For Immediate Release
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Ruth Inst. Explains the Socialist Attack on the Family
“A Socialist Attack on The Family,” a lecture by Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., is now available as a podcast at the Acton Vault.
In the lecture, Morse describes how the socialist vision of equality has played an independent role in family breakdown. She argues that socialism has attacked the family directly and led to demographic collapse.
“We’re pleased that the Acton Institute has chosen to highlight this lecture in its new feature, Acton Vault,” Morse said. “Although it was part of the Institute’s 2008 Lecture Series, if anything, it’s even more relevant today than when it was given 13 years ago. Now we have a group of avowed socialists in Congress, called The Squad, led by the outspoken Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.”
Support for socialism has grown over the years, especially in the Democratic Party. In a September 2020 Hill-HarrisX Poll, 56% of Democrats said they have a favorable view of socialism. “This, after the economic and human catastrophe of Venezuela!” Morse remarked.
An expanded version of Morse’s lecture is available as a Ruth Institute booklet, “The Socialist Attack on the Family.” In it, Morse shows that, far from being incidental to its assault on capitalism, the attack on the family is a key component of socialism’s attempt to “centralize society under control of the state.”
The booklet makes three key points: “1. Socialists are just as committed to abolishing the universal institution of marriage as they were to abolishing the universal institution of private property, 2. The socialist program of eliminating sex differences and abolishing marriage have serious consequences for economic and personal freedom, and 3. Christianity offers more appealing solutions to the problems socialism claims to solve.”
“Socialists view the family as competition for the loyalty of the individual, which they believe should be owed to the collective alone,” said Morse. “They also view the family as a bulwark against revolution, which would usher in the socialist state. Antonio Gramsci, considered by many to be the father of Cultural Marxism, preached that in order to achieve a classless society, the church and the family, which he claimed gave workers a ‘false class consciousness,’ must be eliminated. That’s the objective of what’s called the Culture War.”
Morse contrasts the Christian concept of a Civilization of Love to the socialist vision of a classless society.
The 21-page “Socialist Attack on The Family” is available for a donation of any amount until October 1. The booklet can also be purchased at any time.
The Ruth Institute is a global non-profit organization, leading an international interfaith coalition to defend the family and build a civilization of love.
Jennifer Roback Morse is the author of The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village.
To schedule an interview with Dr. Morse, contact info@ruthinstitute.org.
