![]() In particular, the way we obtained our food and other means of existence influenced the form that the human family took. The way the family evolved over time, he argued, could only be understood in relation to the way that human beings’ material conditions evolved. Engels suggested that the modern human family-in particular in the way it subjugates women-is in many ways an aberration, and that earlier forms of the family saw women enjoying much greater freedom and equality with men. ![]() To be a socialist is to oppose such views, and that is why it is important to study alternatives to our modern way of life in the history and prehistory of our species. Our rulers are all too ready to assert that human beings are innately greedy and violent, and that society’s inequalities and injustices are in some way natural, and have been an essential feature of human life from its very beginnings. It is still important today for socialists to consider questions of the origins of human life and human society. ![]() K arl Marx and Friedrich Engels both took a great interest in early human history and prehistory, and it was Marx’s notes on Lewis Henry Morgan’s Ancient Society that prompted Engels to produce The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State in 1884, a year after Marx’s death. ![]()
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