[ Communist theory demands the destruction of the family and the transition to a period of unconstrained satisfaction of sexual desires. Trotsky also said that the responsibility to educate children should reside solely with the state.

In a letter to Lenin in 1911, Trotsky wrote: “Undoubtedly, sexual oppression is the main means of enslaving a person. While such oppression exists, there can be no question of real freedom. The family, like a bourgeois institution, has completely outlived itself. It is necessary to speak more about this to the workers.”](https://www.ntd.com/chapter-seven-how-the-devil-destroys-the-family-part-i_211704.html#:~:text=Communist%20theory%20demands%20the%20destruction,reside%20solely%20with%20the%20state.&text=The%20family%2C%20like%20a%20bourgeois%20institution%2C%20has%20completely%20outlived%20itself.)