Nice photo, lol... On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]>wrote:
> *State and Revolution, Part 3* > > [image: Adam and Eve, Tamara de Lempicka] > *Adam, Eve and Apple* > > *Origin of Family, Property and State* > > Today we feature Chapter 9, the chapter called “Barbarism and > Civilisation”, of Engels’ book “*The Origin of the Family, Private > Property and The > State<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/index.htm> > *”. The Chapter is linked below as an MS-Word download. > > If you find them difficult, don’t worry too much about the first three > paragraphs of this chapter. They partly refer to previous chapters. The > remainder of Chapter 9 is self-contained. > > “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and The State” is a classic of > the first rank, both within the field of Marxism, and more widely. > > Lenin relied on it, and referred to it often for the illumination that it > gives to the revolutionary question of The State and to the necessity of the > withering away of the State. > > But this work of Engels’ is also foundational in Archaeology and > Paleoanthropology (i.e. the study of the pre-history of human society), just > as Engels’ “*The Condition of the Working Class in > England<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/index.htm> > *” was foundational to the study of the formation of cities - Urbanism > (also called Urban Studies or Town Planning). Engels, who never formally > went to a university, is one of the towering historic founders of scholarly > disciplines. > > *Morgan and Marx* > > Marx had already worked on source material for this project, including on > Henry Morgan’s 1877 book called “*Ancient > Society<http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/morgan-lewis/ancient-society/index.htm> > *”. Engels found Marx’s working papers after Marx’s death in 1883 and > immediately set to work to prepare a book from them for publication. > > The particular contribution of “The Origin of the Family, Private Property > and the State” is that it shows the common, interdependent origin of private > property and the State, plus the fall of the women into the oppressive > condition which they still continue to suffer, and also the institutions of > money, writing and law. > > The simultaneous revolutionary break in all of these things marks the end > of pre-history and the beginning of history, which as Marx and Engels had > noted in the *Communist > Manifesto<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#007> > *, was from that point onwards “a history of class struggles”. > > The transition from prehistoric communism into class society took place a > long time ago in some parts of the world, and much more recently in other > parts. In Egypt and Iraq (Mesopotamia) it may have happened more than five > thousand years ago. In most other parts of the world the transition was > quite recent. > > *Communism, a necessity for women* > > The simultaneous nature of the triple catastrophe (property, state and > downfall of women) may mean that the remedy for all three will likewise have > to be simultaneous. The urgent abolition or “withering away” of the State is > for that reason a woman’s issue, and the socialist project is a woman’s > project, because they are all part of the same complex of oppressions. > Communism is a necessity for women. > > The reversal of the downfall of the women can only be achieved by the > abolition of property and the State. Likewise, the abolition of property and > the State cannot be achieved without the conscious restoration of women to > their proper place in human society. All three goals have to be achieved > together. The three goals are actually the same goal, and the name of it is > *communism <http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/o.htm#communism>*. > > *Image:* Another way of explaining the origins of human society: Adam, > Eve, and the Apple (The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and > Evil), by *Tamara de Lempicka <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempicka>*. > > *Please download and read the text via the following link:* > *Origin of Family, Property and State, Chapter 9, 1884, > Engels<https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/texts/21-the-classics/2106aOriginofFamily%2CPropertyandState%2CChapter9%2C1884%2CEngels.doc?attredirects=0&d=1> > * (8306 words) > > > > > > > -- > You are subscribed. 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