Christopher (Kit) Lasch (June 1, 1932 – February 14, 1994) was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic.
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. Use this quote
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. Use this quote
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. Use this quote
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. Use this quote
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. Use this quote
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. Use this quote
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. Use this quote
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. Use this quote
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. Use this quote
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. Use this quote
