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  The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Friedrich Engels

  

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  Short Description for The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the StateA critique of the Victorian nuclear family. It argues that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 29 April 2010
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages
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  • Categories: History Of Ideas | Sociology | Politics & Government | Marxism & Communism | Constitution: Government & The State | Social & Political Philosophy
  • ISBN 13: 9780141191119 ISBN 10: 0141191112
  • Sales rank: 131,899

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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.