The Origin of the Family

Private Property and the State

Paperback, 220 pages

English language

Published July 24, 2001 by University Press of the Pacific.

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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.

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Subjects

  • Family & relationships
  • Social & political philosophy
  • Social Science
  • Sociology
  • Sociology - General