Mixed Media: ‘The Mill’ & ‘The Pet Shop Boys – Love is a Bourgeois Construct’

Engels wrote a lot about love, monogamy and the family. I think he believed that romatic love was a capitalist construct to justify the oppression of women. For example: "The overthrow of mother right was the world historic defeat of the female sex. The man took command in the home also; the woman was degraded and reduced to servitude; she became the slave of his lust and a mere instrument for the production of children. . . . In order to make certain of the wife’s fidelity and therefore the paternity of his children, she is delivered over unconditionally into the power of the husband; if he kills her, he is only exercising his rights."Although murdering your wife is not allowed in the UK, it is still tolerated in some parts of the world.and"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that [under communism] the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to women.He has not even a suspicion that the real point aimed at [by communists] is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production"