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

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The History of Women's Occupation

Why is this work considered a early work of Marxist feminism and how did it help kind of lay groundwork for a much more robust Marxist understanding of women's oppression yeah really really important question and an important aspect of this tech. This famous work by angles not only maps out and articulates for the first time in the Marxist tradition a historical and dialectical materialist account of the family structure over time based on the material conditions in which families existed but also sketches out the history of patriarchy its underlying causes and ultimately the path to its transcendence. angle shows us that patriarchy is not unique to capitalism but nor is it an immutable characteristic of human nature as many assume and even argue rather it emerged alongside the development

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