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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Friedrich Engels
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Friedrich Engels
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In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropological theories of his time, Engels argued that matriarchal communal societies had been overthrown by class society and its emphasis on private, not communal, property and monogamous, rather than polygamous, sexual organization. This historical development, Engels argued, constituted "the world-historic defeat of the female sex." A masterclass in the application of materialist thought to history and anthropology, and touching on love, monogamy, property, and the development of the human, this landmark work is still foundational in Marxist and socialist feminist theory.
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Index
Adams, Robert xlii
adultery 45, 63, 67, 69–70, 77–78, 141
Æschylus
Oresteia 8–10
The Suppliants 105
Africa xli, 28
Agassiz, Louis 50–51
agriculture 22, 24–25, 26, 151, 157, 162–63
alienation xiv
American Indians xx, xxix, 12–16, 21, 53–54, 68, 146–47
brain size 24
chiefly authority xl–xli
collectives xxxv–xxxviii
consanguinity 27–30, 42
incest 34
inheritance 55–56
marriage 47–49
middle stage of barbarism 22–23, 160–61
see also Iroquois, the
animal marriage 34
animal societies 31–33
animals, domestication of 22, 23–24, 26, 53, 161–62
anthropoid apes 31–32, 33–34
anthropology xxi, 16–17
Aragon 51–52, 53
Aristophanes 63
artists 162
Aryans 23–24, 58, 103, 158, 162
Athenian State, the 109–20, 171
causes of emergence 109–10
citizens rights 110, 117
civil law 110
civil rights 118
classes and class divisions 110–11, 116
constitution 110–11, 115–16
constitution of Cleisthenes 117–18
council 118
development of 114–20
exploitation 115
growth of money economy 111–14
military organization 116
mode of production 113
mortgages 111–12
naval power 114–15
police force 119
political rights 116
power of the nobility 111
private ownership 116
slaves 119
tribes 118
Athens 63–64, 77, 99–103, 179
Australia xliin, 21, 28, 40, 42–45, 49
Australopithecus 20n
authority xxxi–xxxii
autonomy xxxvii
Aztecs xli, xliv, 107n
Bachofen,...