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 Ernest Untermann (Translator)

252 pages first pub 1884 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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Engels composed Origin, published in 1884, from notes he and Marx had made from their reading of the anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan's Ancient Society, or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery Through Barbarism to Civilization ...

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