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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Penguin Classics) Book

A critique of the Victorian nuclear family. It argues that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies.Read More

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  • Foyles

    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.

  • 0141191112
  • 9780141191119
  • Friedrich Engels
  • 29 April 2010
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
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