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The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Friedrich Engels; Eleanor Burke Leacock; Jennifer Doyle is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropological theories of his time, Engels argued that matriarchal communal societies had been overthrown by class society and its emphasis on private, not communal, property and monogamous, rather than polygamous, sexual organization. This historical development, Engels argued, constituted “the world-historic defeat of the female sex.” A masterclass in the application of materialist thought to history and anthropology, and touching on love, monogamy, property, and the development of the human, this landmark work is still foundational in Marxist and socialist feminist theory.
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
- Friedrich Engels; Eleanor Burke Leacock; Jennifer Doyle
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781839761515
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Anthropology
- 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 (1976)
- 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)
- Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats (2001)
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