The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Classics)

by Friedrich Engels

Tristram Hunt (Introduction)

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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.
  • ISBN10 0141191112
  • ISBN13 9780141191119
  • Publish Date 29 April 2010 (first published 1 May 1884)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics