abolition of the family - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 6: Bonus 17

A Sophie Lewis manifesto for this goal imagines an aghast interlocutor who compares its subject to “gravity or god.” For 10 points each:

[10h] A 2023 book by M. E. O’Brien calls for what goal? A passage on this goal in The Communist Manifesto sarcastically notes “Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.”

ANSWER: abolition of the family [accept answers describing the breakup of the nuclear family; accept “Aufhebung der Familie!”; prompt on answers indicating the abolition of marriage] (The Sophie Lewis book is Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation. M. E. O’Brien is the author of Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care.)

[10e] Shulamith Firestone revived the “infamous proposal” by suggesting the use of artificial wombs in a 1970 book titled for this concept “of sex.” Hegel described a kind of this process in which the master and servant recognize the self-consciousness of the other.

ANSWER: dialectic [accept master-servant dialectic; accept The Dialectic of Sex]

[10m] Lewis credits this coiner of the word “feminism” with identifying the repression of the single-family home in an account of his “phalansteries.” This utopian socialist predicted a future in which the sea would turn to lemonade.

ANSWER: Charles Fourier [or François Marie Charles Fourier]

<HA, Other Academic> | NAFTA-Packet-6

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
30	15.67	100%	37%	20%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	10	10	10	30	HEM
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Say It Ain't Zhou	0	10	10	20	EM
Chicago !A	Execute Order 6 7	0	10	0	10	E
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Team 8	0	10	10	20	EM
David Foster Gromit	Copán Seethe	0	10	0	10	E
Dielectrical Materialism	Dour Straits	0	10	0	10	E
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	0	10	0	10	E
Habitat 67	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	0	10	0	10	E
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	Indiana	0	10	10	20	EM
Invective Against Swans	BHSU	0	10	0	10	E
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	0	10	10	20	EM
Maybe Ever	Lex	10	10	0	20	HE
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	0	10	10	20	EM
NYU A	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	0	10	0	10	E
Noah Sheidlower	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	10	10	0	20	HE
Northwestern	1000000 Delinquents	0	10	0	10	E
Not Old! (Old)	Team 7	0	10	10	20	EM
Shipping Down from Ballston	The "C" Team	0	10	0	10	E
St. Marx	W&L+Friend	10	10	10	30	HEM
Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10	E
Stanford B	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20	EM
Tennessee A	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	0	10	0	10	E
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	No Country for Old Quizzers	0	10	10	20	EM
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	0	10	0	10	E
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	10	10	0	20	HE
UBC A	UBC B	0	10	0	10	E
Untitled Keyal Team	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	0	10	10	20	EM
Vacuous Tortoise	C R A B S	0	10	0	10	E
WashU	[Redacted]	10	10	0	20	HE
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	0	10	0	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	20.00	100%	25%	75%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✕	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✕	3	13.33	33%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%