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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780141191119
- ISBN-10: 0141191112
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Publish Date: June 2010
- Dimensions: 7.74 x 5.12 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.41 pounds
- Page Count: 320
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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