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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Engels, Friedrich; Barrett, Michèle
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| Publisher: |
Penguin Classics
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| Date: |
06/29/2010
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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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