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‘Free love’ or ‘family values’ — is there a Marxist view?

The short answer is — there isn’t one.
Socialists have been known to argue at length about “the family” as well as every other social institution.
But Marxists don’t have a collective “position” on people’s personal relationships or domestic arrangements, as long as they are entered into freely, don’t involve violence, coercion, corruption, exploitation or greed, and don’t damage anyone else.
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