Project: Origin of the Family, Private Property & the State
Your Mission, should you decide to accept it:
Answer the questions found below as a group
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Be finished by the end of the allowed time
Project: Origin of the Family, Private Property & the State

Discuss the origin of family, property, & the state, including the works of Marx, Engels, AND Morgan.

1.  Describe family structure before "the historic defeat of women."

2.  What are the social practices of the pairing family?

3.  What social conditions allowed the historic defeat?

4.  Discuss the transition from the old communal system of hunter gatherer society to full private ownership, first of herds, and later of land, including the roles of females & males.

5.  What did men want that caused the historic defeat?

6.  What social practices are said to result from the historic defeat?

7.  What are the social practices of the monogamous family?

8.  Leaving out socialism, what is Engels' solution to patriarchy?  Critically evaluate.

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