![]() ![]() ![]() This episode of Socialism, part of a short series on Engels, looks at Marxism and women’s liberation: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. How did humans move from this to ways of organising society which are more advanced – but where a small, pampered minority exploits the hard work and suffering of the majority? How is this connected to women being treated as second-class citizens or commodities? And how does capitalism benefit from it? Friedrich Engels investigated these questions in 1884.Ĭan patriarchy be analysed and overcome separately from the struggle against the economic ruling class? And what is necessary to end women’s oppression – both by material privations and by backwards social attitudes – once and for all? But all contributed what they could to producing the necessities of life, and men and women had an equal say and social status. ![]() In the late 19th century this was explosive stuff. It showed that women’s second-class status in society, the inequality, discrimination and oppression we face, hasn’t always existed. Life was basic, precarious and sometimes brutal. The ‘Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State’, published in 1884, was Engels’ main contribution to this issue. Thousands of years ago, early human societies lived without economic classes or gender oppression. What are the roots of women’s oppression? ![]()
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