The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Friedrich Engels with Eleanor Burke Leacock (Contributor), Jennifer Doyle (Contributor)

265 pages first pub 1884 (editions) user-added

nonfiction classics philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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The most influential theory of the origins of women’s oppression in the modern era, in a beautiful new editionIn this classic work Engels argued that matriarchal communal societies had been overthrown by class society and its emphasis on private, ...

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