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Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats

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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

History
Property
The State
Primitive societies
Family
Families
Genealogy
Primitive Society
Social evolution, State
The"
Nonfiction
Sociology

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Edition1970 · International Publishers

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Extent: 176 pages
Language: English
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