p ... Question 21. What influence will the communist social system have on the family?

p Answer. It will make relations between the sexes a purely private affair, which will be a matter only for the persons concerned, and in which society has no need to interfere. This is possible because of the abolition of private property and because of the public education of children, in consequence of which both of the bases for marriage hitherto-the dependence through private property of the wife on the husband and the children on the parents -are abolished.

It is here that we find the answer to the outcry of highlymoral philistines about common ownership of women under communism. .Common ownership of women is a phenomenon belonging wholly to bourgeois society and flourishing at the present time in the form of prostitution. But prostitution is based on private property and will disappear together with it. Consequently, instead of 24 introducing common ownership of women, communist organisation will abolish it.. ..