He also made use of many and diverse data gleaned in his own studies of the history of Greece, Rome, Old Ireland, and the Ancient Germans. Working on the book, he used Marx’s precis, and some of Morgan’s factual material and conclusions. The precis was written between 1880-81 and contained Marx’s numerous remarks on Morgan as well as passages from other sources.Īfter reading the precis, Engels set out to write a special treatise – which he saw as fulfilling Marx’s will. Online Version: Marx/Engels Internet Archive () 1993, 1999, 2000.Īfter Marx’s death, in rumaging through Marx’s manuscripts, Engels came upon Marx’s precis of Ancient Society – a book by progressive US scholar Lewis Henry Morgan and published in London 1877. Transcription/Markup: Zodiac/Brian Baggins Translation: The text is essentially the English translation by Alick West published in 1942, but it has been revised against the German text as it appeared in MEW Volume 21, Dietz Verlag 1962, and the spelling of names and other terms has been modernised Source: Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume Three Friedrich Engels ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY, PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE STATEįirst Published: October 1884, in Hottingen-Zurich
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