Biden on Texas: "the last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime, everything's fine, take off your mask, forget it. It still matters" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/03/politics/biden-abbott-texas-coronavirus/index.html
Also Biden on Texas: "After Border Patrol release, asylum-seekers test positive for Covid in Brownsville, Texas"
According to Marx and Engels, the rejection of marriage and religion are just corollaries of their economic views on wealth inequality.
First, Engels argues that marriage is only societally necessary because men and women are socioeconomically unequal (women depend on men economically), and that this is mainly because women spend so much of their lives taking care of children. He says that communism "does away with private property and educates children on a communal basis, and in this way removes the two bases of traditional marriage – the dependence rooted in private property, of the women on the man, and of the children on the parent" (Principles of Communism 21). He says the state would care for children "from the moment they can leave their mother's care" (Principles of Communism 18), which basically means after weaning, thereby liberating women from the main thing that has prevented them from being socioeconomically equal to men throughout history - childrearing. As a result, there would be no marriage in a communist society, and sex would become a purely private decision with no state or societal recognition of any sexual relationships (e.g. married ones) over others. Hence, his views on sex and rejection of traditional marriage are literally just applications of his views on wealth inequality - specifically, the inequality between men and women.
Second, both Marx and Engels explicitly say that communism does away with religion because religion is just a societal manifestation of class antagonisms (Communist Manifesto II), which communism eliminates for the first time in history. Hence the phrase attributed to Marx that religion is the "opium of the people," meaning that it's just a way for the masses to compensate for their material sufferings in this life with pleasant illusions of an afterlife or a God or what have you. So since communism does away with the root cause of material sufferings (viz. class antagonisms) for the first time in history, there would be no religion in a communist society. So once again, their views on religion are just applications of their prior views on class antagonisms due to wealth inequality.
So it's not a quirk or accident that political groups and parties that tend to have more overlap with Marx and Engels on specific economic policy positions also tend to have more overlap with them on policy positions dealing with sex, marriage, the role of the state in childrearing, gender roles, and religion (e.g. religious liberty). Marx and Engels are 100% up-front and honest about how their views on the latter are simply applications of their views on the former.
‘The MIC has been dropped’! Elon Musk just REKT WaPo AND Jeff Bezos in one teeny tiny sentence and it is LEGEND
Explain this to me like I'm illiterate...