The Origin of the Family

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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.

subjects: History,  Property,  The State,  Primitive societies,  Family,  Families,  Genealogy,  Primitive Society,  Social evolution, State,  The",  Nonfiction,  Sociology,  Political science,  Family, history,  Property, history,  State, the,  Homme primitif,  Famille,  Histoire,  Propriété,  État,  Gezin,  Verwantschap,  Eigendomsverhoudingen,  Staat (politicologie),  Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881,  Social evolution

People: Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881)