
The original publication in 1884, jointly with Engels’ prior publications with Karl Marx, “explained the rise of class conflict and exploitation in the context of increasing division of labor and growing commodity production” in an “anthropological-demographic dimension” (Wiltgen, 1979, p.

In this treatise, Friedrich Engels (2021) also examined how society developed, doing so through thorough explanations of periods of society and the structure of family that correlated to it.

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State introduces a perspective of gender history, positing that as human culture shifted away from community ideals, its power dynamics shifted from women to men.

Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.
