false: the sexual revolution and so on and so forth *schniff* broke the tradition of strong nuclear families in the West correct ackshually: millenium-long family meme lineages were eradicated by the second industrial revolution and especially by mandatory public schooling
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yes indeed; but for example in Japan (my specialty) the first and strongest anti-family pro-state force was probably the Army -- v. successful in that they managed to convince a whole gen to sacrifice their sons for the kokutai
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modernization can be viewed as a process of getting rid of old relations and replacing them with relations mediated by state/capital (crush the dialects, you learn how to talk in school, crush the clans, your justice comes from the police etc)
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