by Frederick Engels / Friedrich Engels; Introduction by Evelyn Reed
The family, private property, and the state—the basic institutions of capitalist society—are neither “natural” nor everlasting. They are the product of specific economic and social conditions.
Frederick Engels, a founder with Karl Marx of the modern workers’ movement, traces the evolution of these institutions from the dawn of class society until today.
He shows how the oppression of women as a sex begins with the development of private property, and how the development of the modern working class creates the material basis to end that oppression.
This edition of Engel’s pioneering work includes an introduction by Evelyn Reed, author of Woman’s Evolution.
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ISBN (Softbound):9780873482615
Author: Frederick Engels / Friedrich Engels
Genre: History, Philosophy
Publisher: Pathfinder
No. Of Pages: 292
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction by Evelyn Reed; Page 7
Preface to the first edition, 1884; Page 31
Preface to the fourth edition, 1891; Page 35
1. Prehistoric stages of culture; Page 53
2. The family; Page 61
3. The Iroquois gens; Page 131
4. The Greek gens; Page 151
5. The rise of the Athenian state; Page 163
6. The gens and the state in Rome; Page 177
7. The gens among the Celts and Germans; Page 191
8. The formation of the state among the Germans; Page 209
9. Barbarism and civilization; Page 225
Appendixes
1. A recently discovered case of group marriage; Page 253
2. The part played by labor in the transition from ape to man; Page 259
Notes; Page 277
Name Index; Page 281
Subject Index; Page 287
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