Abstract
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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Private propertyCommunismProperty (philosophy)State (computer science)Construct (python library)SociologyNuclear familyPolitical sciencePolitical economyGender studiesLawPhilosophyEpistemologyPoliticsMathematics
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Friedrich Engels
(2021).
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.
Politics and Kinship
, 217-223.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003003595-17
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- 10.4324/9781003003595-17