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.
Genres
- 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
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