The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Author(s): Friedrich Engels; Jennifer Doyle (Introduction by)
Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back in to print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram Hunt
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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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Verso Trade
- : 0.368317
- : 01 August 2021
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Special Fields
- : Friedrich Engels; Jennifer Doyle (Introduction by)
- : Paperback
- : 2107
- : English