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The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Evelyn Reed; Frederick Engels is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State about?
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.
Who reads The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Evelyn Reed; Frederick Engels
- Publisher
- New York: Pathfinder Press
- Published
- 1976
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780087348264
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Gender Studies, Political Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.07 / 5 (49 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The origin of the family, private property, and the state, in the light of the researches of Lewis H. Morgan (1972)
- The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan (English and German Edition) (1972)
- The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Penguin Classics) (2010)
- The origin of the family, private property and the state in the light of the researches of L.H. Morgan: with an introduction and notes by E.B. Leacock (1972)
- The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (2021)
- Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats (2001)