![]() ![]() ![]() Engels looks into the origin and essence of the state, and concludes it is bound to wither away leaving a classless society.Įngels: "Along with the state will inevitably fall. ![]() It focuses on early human history, following the disintegration of the primitive community and the emergence of a class society based on private property. It would, of course, become The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State - the first edition of which was published October 1884 in Hottingen-Zurich.Įngels wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State in just two months - beginning toward the end of March 1884 and completing it by the end of May. He also made use of many and diverse data gleaned in his own studies of the history of Greece, Rome, Old Ireland, and the Ancient Germans. Working on the book, he used Marx's precis, and some of Morgan's factual material and conclusions. The precis was written between 1880-81 and contained Marx's numerous remarks on Morgan as well as passages from other sources.Īfter reading the precis, Engels set out to write a special treatise - which he saw as fulfilling Marx's will. ![]() After Marx's death, in rumaging through Marx's manuscripts, Engels came upon Marx's precis of Ancient Society - a book by progressive US scholar Lewis Henry Morgan and published in London 1877. ![]()
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