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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Arrangement Attempt Delusion Family Grows Keep Modern Open Options Out People Purely Redefine Time Voluntary

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The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Been Consumerism Developments Eroded Family Life Promoted Same Wage Way

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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Categories Conventional Does Hope Left-Wing Lie Lies New Political Politics Rejecting Reply

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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Conservatism Contemporary Important Intellectual Matters Silence

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The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Collapse Decades Family Last Seen System Three Wage

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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Ask Believe Between Conflict Family Feminism Left People

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The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: About Collapse Diversity Emergence Family Family Life Growing Instead Left Life New Talk Talks Types

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The left has lost the common touch.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Common Left Lost Touch

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The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Common Common Sense Days Did Left Longer Sense Stands Tom

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The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Abortion Attitudes Crime Curriculum Defense Family Left Nothing Popular Regarding School Sees Superstition

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: June 1st, 1932

Died: February 14th, 1994

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