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human society is mental warfare, that warfare within the
body of the family must not be ignored." (p. 30)

"They are debating whether the dangers of the institution of the
family can be consigned to history. An unsteady nuclear fami-
ly has emerged.

That conception itself will disappear spontaneously with
the disappearance of capitalism." (p. 44)

"(The family) is a hugely enslaving relationship that by
itself will cause a person to cease to exist... We reject and
are terrified by stale familial relationships in every village
and town in Kurdistan." (p. 47)

"It will be of use to regard confusion in the body of the family and

that the problems are at the highest level objectively. We need to
adopt a political approach to the institution of the family, that
had not advanced of its own accord in hundreds of years. The
family is a most dangerous institution that imposes a very
dangerous, ideological, political, moral, cultural and eco-
nomic backwardness, that some forces are seeking to rein-
force by settling crutches to left and right." (p. 48)

"The family is the institution we have the most difficulty
with. Instead of regarding the family as an institution with
immunity and always deserving of respect, it is an institution

within close binds of colonialism and is the firm founda-
tion of its ideological policy within the country, and it
leaves our people in a state of despair and deprived of a

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