
Studied the latest books on the subject – including those of Russian Primitive society, Engels set about preparing a new edition of his book. In 1890, having gathered new material on the history of Put the whole machinery of state where it will then belong: into the museum ofĪntiquity, by the side of the spinning-wheel and the bronze axe.” Production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers, will Origin and essence of the state, and concludes it is bound to wither away

History, following the disintegration of the primitive community and theĮmergence of a class society based on private property. Of March 1884 and completing it by the end of May. Property and the State in just two months – beginning toward the end Was published October 1884 in Hottingen-Zurich.Įngels wrote The Origin of the Family, Private

It would, of course, become The Origin of theįamily, Private Property and the State – the first edition of which His own studies of the history of Greece, Rome, Old Ireland, and the Ancient He also made use of many and diverse data gleaned in On the book, he used Marx’s precis, and some of Morgan’s factual Special treatise – which he saw as fulfilling Marx’s will. The precis was written betweenġ880-81 and contained Marx’s numerous remarks on Morgan as well asĪfter reading the precis, Engels set out to write a Henry Morgan and published in London 1877. Rummaging through Marx’s manuscripts, Engels came upon Marx’s precis of Ancient Society – a book by progressive US The Formation of the State Among the GermansĪppendix: A Recently Discovered Case of Group Marriage

The Consanguine Family (The First Stage of the Family)

Proofed and corrected: Mark Harris 2010 Martin Swayne 2021 (based on a comparison with the Wellred Books 2020 edition) Online Version: Marx/Engels Internet Archive () 1993, 1999, 2000. Transcription/Markup: Zodiac/ Brian Baggins Translation: The text is essentially the English translation by Alick West published in 1942, but it has been revised against the German text as it appeared in MEW Volume 21, Dietz Verlag 1962, and the spelling of names and other terms has been modernised Source: Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume Three Works of Frederick Engels 1884 The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the Stateįirst Published: October 1884, in Hottingen-Zurich
