“The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State“ by ENGELS (audiobook)

“The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State“ by ENGELS (audiobook) 0:00 Introduction 2:55 Preface to the 1st edition 7:26 Preface to the 4th edition 37:27 Chapter 1. Stages of prehistoric culture 55:52 Chapter 2. The family: 1:17:00 -1 The Consanguine family 1:21:25 -2 The Punaluan family 1:41:25 -3 The Pairing family 2:20:39 -4 The Monogamous family 3:15:53 Chapter 3. The Iriquois gens 3:55:47 Chapter 4. The Greek gens 4:20:40 Chapter 5. The rise of the Athenian state 4:49:55 Chapter 6. The gens and the state in Rome 5:18:52 Chapter 7. The gens among Celts and Germans 5:57:37 Chapter 8. The formation of the state among Germans. 6:27:45 Chapter 9. Barbarism and civilization. 7:23:23 Appendix: A recently discovered case of group-marriage TERMS: Hetaerism = sex outside of marriage (implies existence of a marriage system) Gens = basic group of ancient humans, based on kinship Phratry = middle group that sometimes exists between smaller gens and larger tribes Exogamy = rules limiting marriage outside the gens Endogamy = rules limiting marriage inside the gens Polygamy = many marriage partners Polygyny = marriage with 1 man and several wives Polyandry = marriage with 1 woman and several husbands Monogamy = individual marriage which arose to insure men get to leave their property to their heir Consanguinity = bloodline/descent. Systems of consanguinity measure closeness in descent Matriarchy = system where descent is observed in the mother’s bloodline and not the father’s. Later this also meant that when inheritance was invented, it was originally in the mother’s line.