![]() ![]() The book drew from Ancient Society (1877) by the anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan, who befriended the Iroquois and studied the development of property relations in ancient history and the relationship between social production and kinship forms, or the family. Engels outlines the successive social and economic forms which underlay early history, as humanity gained mastery over the means of existence. Written over 18 years ago, the article highlights many aspects of the brutal oppression of women which, despite some changes, continue to be relevant today.įriedrich Engels' The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884) is the basic Marxist text on the roots of the subjugation of women in private property. ![]() From 1998, W&R articles have been published in Spartacist, the quadrilingual theoretical journal of the ICL. W&R was published by the Women’s Commission of the Spartacist League/U.S., section of the International Communist League, between 19. We reprint below, in excerpted form, an article from Women and Revolution (W&R) No. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the Stateįrom the Archives of Women and Revolution:įriedrich Engels, Karl Marx’s Partner, on: ![]()
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