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The Origin of the Family, Private Property, & The State by Friedrich Engels (Pt. 1)

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The Role of Angles in Historical Materialism

Most new facts could still be integrated into a historical materialist account that wouldn't fundamentally alter the mode of analysis. angles is fairly protected overall and i guess i could see your point about maybe patriarchy emerged but did not emerge in any way related to the development of class society and private property. That would certainly be a problem for angles his theory. I think this is just like a good example of how marxis can engage emerging scientific and social discoveries can be productive with them by no means was morgan a marxist right? It's a good model of why those kinds of engagement which i hope that we can continue to facilitate on our show are useful yeah.

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