Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back in to print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram Hunt
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.
Product code: 9780141191119
| ISBN |
9780141191119 |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H198xW129xS14 |
| No. Of Pages |
240 |
| Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd |