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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Friedrich Engels

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1884
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 250

Marx died leaving notebooks crammed with Lewis Henry Morgan's fieldwork among the Iroquois, and Engels sat down to finish what his friend had started. What came out reads the family as a crime scene.

The first class antagonism appearing in history coincides with the development of the antagonism of man and wife in monogamy
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Friedrich Engels

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