"The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and The State" by Friedrich Engels (Pt. 3)
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The Importance of the State in Marxism
The state is one of those things that I think all of us grow up just taking for granted, right? Like the whole mythos of liberalism is that absent the state, there's chaos in anarchy. One of the fascinating things that Ingalls is doing in this text is saying actually there was a time before the state, okay? The state is not an eternal thing. It hasn't been here since the world came into existence. There was a time BEFORE it and there will be a time after it as well.
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