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The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State

By Friedrich Engels

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2021
ISBN
1839761520, 9781839761522
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
343 kB (350825 bytes)
Pages
240\0
Time added
2023-09-15 10:06:13

Description

In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropological theories of his time, Engels argued that matriarchal communal societies had been overthrown by class society and its emphasis on private, not communal, property and monogamous, rather than polygamous, sexual organization. This historical development, Engels argued, constituted “the world-historic defeat of the female sex.”A masterclass in the application of materialist thought to history and anthropology, and touching on love, monogamy, property, and the development of the human, this landmark work is still foundational in Marxist and socialist feminist theory.

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