Evelina Johansson Wilén is an associate professor of gender studies at Örebro University in Sweden. She serves on the editorial board of the Marxist theoretical journal Röda Rummet and is the author of a forthcoming book on family abolition, to be published by La Fabrique in 2026.
Family abolitionists see the family as the beating heart of capitalist social reproduction. But this view of the family misunderstands both the structure of capitalist reproduction and the complexity of how people survive within it.