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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (31268)2/25/2004 5:40:44 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) of 793858
 
First published in 1884, the book focused on early human history, following the disintegration of primitive societies, which Engels believed were characterized by an early form of communism, and the emergence of a class society based on private property. Engels identified the family as the basic unit of capitalist society, and of female oppression. He declared that the family unit is a decadent, destructive, and wasteful institution for everyone except the ruling class.

This is the root fallacy of Marx - he relied on false or incomplete ethnography. His conception of human nature and history is false, and based on bad observations of primitive societies as accounted in mid 19th century travelogues.

It is a crime that anthropologists aren't stepping forward and underlining the foundational importance of the family as the central human institution. Too much of the Left in the field. We'll just as soon hear JohnM say it.

Derek
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