216 pages
English language
Published Jan. 24, 1940 by Lawrence and Wishart.
The origin of the family, private property and the state
in the light of the researches of Lewis H. Morgan
Friedrich Engels: The origin of the family, private property and the state (1940, Lawrence and Wishart)
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies. Under this patriarchal system, women were servants and, effectively, prostitutes. Only Communism would herald the dawn of communal living and a new sexual freedom and, in turn, the role of the state would become superfluous.
