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anharee's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.25
read it for a paper. enjoyed the analysis of women being like the proletariat within the home and men being the bourgeoisie. integral to family economics, could do without the racism.
sansalogy's review
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
A good read for anyone wanting to get into marxism. Despite being written after the death of the founder of communism, Engels stills writes in continuity with its ideology and links how the concept of family and its development is profoundly linked to the appearance of private property and the state.
Not up to date on new anthropological evidences and informations, with some major sexist and homophobic biases still showing, it remains a cornerstone of its genre.
Not up to date on new anthropological evidences and informations, with some major sexist and homophobic biases still showing, it remains a cornerstone of its genre.
lusca's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Very reflective. Many new information has come to light that contradicts what Engels writes about here, but I really like this way of observing history, and connecting human development to our productive forces and relations. Despite some information not being relevant anymore, this book is an interesting read and important to understanding Marxist thought and dialectical materialism.
junyan's review against another edition
5.0
私有制的诞生与发展伴随着妇女家务服务的私人化以及妇女从社会大生产的脱离。现代的个体家庭建立在公开或隐蔽的家务奴隶制之上。而妇女解放的先决条件是一切妇女重新回到公共事业中去，要达到这一点就必须消除个体家庭作为社会基本经济单位的属性。废除婚姻制度、消除私有制才能实现真正的妇女解放。
xanderman001's review
5.0
Ironically, in some ways, this serves as a better introduction to anti-duhring than utopian and scientific. Bourgeois academics and feminists will always criticize thus book for some anthropological arguments that engels made and Engel's faults as a person and just ignore the validity of his Dialectical arguments that explains the contradictions of early capitalist society, which was built on the backs of slaves; And how this evolution from the late stages of barbarism form the framework for the internal contradictions within the dialectic of capitalist society. But in academia we can't have objective truths because then that would make the academics and the liberal arts as a whole obsolete. So instead we must conjur up meaningless platitudes about "cultural constructs" and point out pointless facts about Engels as a person rather than Engels as a philosopher and Socialist. But I would still read utopian and scientific first to any new socialists because this book has some of the more difficult language in the Marxist canon.