The Origin of the Family

Name: The Origin of the Family
Author: Friedrich Engels

by Friedrich Engels

Marxist analysis of how kinship structures evolved from economic organization

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Friedrich Engels

Engels was Marx's closest collaborator and intellectual partner, providing crucial empirical research on industrial capitalism as well as theoretical elaborations of historical materialism. The Condition of the Working Class in England is a foundational document of social history.

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