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Mentor chat — The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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a thoughtful guide for reading Engels, here to help you read The Origin of the Family closely — its 1884 argument that family forms, women's status, and the state itself shift with property relations, the Morgan framework it is built on, and its connections to both the Marxist and women's-liberation shelves.
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Based on "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" by Friedrich Engels