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

Red Menace

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Monogamy and the Coming Social Revolution

In the modern world monogamy and prostitution are indeed contradictions but inseparable contradictions poles of the same state of society. The coming social revolution will reduce to a minimum all this anxiety about bequeathing and inheriting having arisen from economic causes, he says. With the transformation of the means of production into social property there will disappear also wage labor the proletariat and therefore the necessity for a certain statistically calculable number of women to surrender themselves for money prostitution disappears monogamy instead of collapsing at last becomes a reality also for men in any case. "The position of men will be very much altered but the position of women of all women also undergo significant change with the transfer of the Means of Production

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