families are socialism with few partecipants.
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a wife and the children do always have the option of leaving under a situation of duress, if there is witnesses and evidence to support the case
otherwise you are saying that some people just have to suffer under the tyranny of a psychopathic patriarch, that's not ok, and it's not defensible either
a lot of people leaved socialist regime so its an option. Tiranny is how socialism (and any collectivist doctrine) can scale to multiple houdreds people.
A not happy wife or a not happy kid can theoretically peacefully leave the family, this dont make the family less a socialism.
i think really that the issue is fascism, which is where there is a binding (slavery) involved
any patriarch who considers his offspring and chattels as being his servants is a tyrant
it doesn't matter the scale, ultimately, it's the slavery, the use of violence to enforce conformity, the lack of ability to aver and disagree and not be attacked for this difference
i would argue that it's not even about this label socialism at all, but rather, if it's a slave system, it's a cult
the cult of rome, the cult of dEmOcRaCy the cult of pUrItY the cult of eQuAlItY
cults, what defines tyrrany is cultic behavior, it's a perversion of the fealty towards a true monarch or patriarch