The first great division of labour between the two sexes had for its basis simply the difference of sex, and the first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
— Friedrich Engels Modern

Communist Manifesto co-author

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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Date / Period

1884

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Controversial

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch02.htm

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