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.
ISBN: | 9780141191119 |
Publication date: | 29th April 2010 |
Author: | Friedrich Engels |
Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 235 pages |
Series: | Penguin Classics |
Genres: |
Far-left political ideologies and movements Social and cultural history |