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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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Preface to the First Edition, 1884
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What "bequest" does Engels say he is executing by writing this book?
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Marx's plan to present Morgan's ethnographic findings in connection with his own materialist conception of history
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Morgan's dying wish that Engels complete his unfinished field notes
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A commission from the German Social Democratic Party to write a popular history
D
A promise to translate Bachofen's Mutterrecht into English
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