Origin of the Family, Ideology and the State

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Friedrich Engels: Origin of the Family, Ideology and the State (2021, Verso Books)

240 pages

English language

Published Nov. 9, 2021 by Verso Books.

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978-1-83976-151-5
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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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