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Is there an "updated" version of Engels's Origin of Family, etc. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by King_Simp@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzhou@lemmygrad.ml

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The work is good and from what I can tell, the points about the discussion on the State (which is the basis for Lenin's thesis in State and Revolution), seem solid. But a lot of the family stuff seems...I don't know. I was never taught that stuff and I really have no anthropological background to begin researching such stuff, and I know Engels wrote it based on the very start of (respectable) anthropology.

Basically what I'm asking is, is it still accurate and just not accepted by most people because Marxism (Similar to the LTV and such), or is it outdated? And if it's the latter, is there a more up to date source, and what does it change about Marxist thinking of pre-capitalist society?

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[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Some of the essays in social reproduction theory are great, but its kinda all over the place. There's no real theme linking the book together, just like 20 random essays on whatever the different writers wanted to talk about. iirc two essays are really great, and do a solid materialist analysis.

Creation of the patriarchy isn't bad, but its not a materialist analysis... it focuses more on ideology: the symbols and systems used by all the world's religions which became dominant in the feudal era, to entrench feudal patriarchy. There are only a few phrases in the massive book which talk about production in any way.

Caliban in the witch is a great book.

I highly recommend Lise Vogel - Marxism and the Oppression of Women. It does a historical survey of what marxists up to the 1980s thought about the domestic labor debate, as well as being entirely materialist analysis.