Author

Frederick Engels, in the light of researches of Lewis H Morgan

Publisher

Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1946

Printing Details

Reprint. Hardback, bound in blue cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 19.5 x 12.5cm, 216pp.

About the Book

First published in 1884, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 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.

Condition

A good reading copy. The spine is tanned and faded, the whole book a little dulled but otherwise in strong readable condition.

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