Summarize the main points of Engels’s The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. What weaknesses are present in this theory? What are the strengths of this theory (that you feel are still valid today)?
What will be an ideal response?
Varies. Organization of societies is determined by both the production of the means of existence and the reproduction of the species. Engels argued that prehistoric societies had passed through two stages of development—savagery and barbarism. Group marriages were replaced by the “pairing family” consisting of one man, one woman, and their children. The advent of the pairing family effected a new division of labor in which the man took responsibility for obtaining food and, with it, ownership of the means of production. The man’s power was further consolidated through overturning “mother-right” lines of descent. Laws of inheritance would henceforth be assigned through the male, not the female.
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