The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State by Frederick Ingalls

The theory of progress which Ingalls imports into this text is a theory of progress inherently racist or eurocentric yeah so this is something that i wanted us to tackle really directly because while this text has been super influential within the marxist canon leading to some very important works it's also been subjected to criticism within and outside of marxism on sort of these grounds of racism and eurocentrism. So first i think there's some distinguishing work that just needs to be done here  and i think this criticism needs to be taken very seriously in order for us to kind of work with this text it would be a mistake i think to ignore it.