This essay advances a Marxist feminist claim that the family is the capitalist form of appearance of unwaged reproductive labour. Using a Hegelian-Marxist method centered on capital’s necessary appearances, it shows how the family mystifies, privatizes, and extracts reproductive labour. Revisiting Marx’s critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, it argues that the family is necessitated by capital and concludes by calling for its abolition and the socialization of reproductive

In this conversation, Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism. Challenging the view of Marx as a cold materialist, Wills reveals his deep ethical vision, one that is grounded in freedom, creativity, and collective self-determination. She argues that revolution is not chaos but humanity’s conscious effort to overcome alienation and shape a just world, where moral and historical progress unite in the struggle for genuine emancipation.

Sandro Brito Rojas argues that, for Marx, ideology is a false consciousness that obscures the true nature of social relations, particularly the alienation caused by the division between mental and material labor. Rojas highlights that Marx’s critique of ideology is not just intellectual but calls for revolutionary action. Ideology is a consequence of social contradictions, not their root cause. To overcome ideological distortions, a material transformation of society is neces

"How do we think about a new political imaginary that is connected to, yet distinct from, technology?"