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"The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and The State" by Friedrich Engels (Pt. 2)
Red Menace
The Marxist View of Progress
Engels doesn't hold that in progress as uniform in all instances, but it was rather based on contradictions which are imminent to a given historical situation. Those who bend this theory of progress into an apology for colonialism or some sort of ideological justification for the conquest of pre-capitalist or pre-state societies are engaged in a flat mean of a complex history. But we can neither really be uncritical defenders of a deterministic progress in the abstract nor advocates to return to a time before capitalism and the development of the state.
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