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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