74 definitions
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
55 concepts · 74 definitions
- adultery1
- barbarian1
- capital punishment1
- casuistry1
- cattle1
- chance1
- civilization2
- class society1
- cruelty1
- democratic republic1
- divorce1
- domestic happiness1
- erotic love1
- exchange1
- family2
- freedom of contract1
- genealogy1
- the gens2
- hetaira1
- housework2
- husband1
- hypocrisy1
- Iron1
- irony of history1
- kinship1
- love1
- love marriage1
- lover1
- marriage2
- marriage of convenience1
- merchant1
- money2
- money economy1
- monogamy5
- mortgage1
- novel1
- oppression1
- overthrow of mother right1
- paternity1
- patriarchy2
- police1
- police officer1
- primitive communism2
- progress1
- property2
- prostitution2
- romantic love1
- scholar1
- slavery2
- state5
- tribe1
- Universal suffrage1
- wealth1
- will1
- women's liberation1
Monogamy (n.) will not disappear when property is socialized; it will at last become a reality — for men too.
Monogamy (n.) was from the start monogamy for the woman only, stamped by the young slave women who belonged unreservedly to the man.
Monogamy (n.) was the first form of family based not on nature but on economics — the victory of private property over communal property.
Monogamy (n.) enters history not as the reconciliation of man and woman but as the subjugation of one sex by the other.
State (n.) was invented to sanctify newly acquired private riches, set the seal of social recognition on every new way of amassing wealth, and perpetuate the right of the possessing class to exploit the rest.
State (n.) will be put where it belongs — in the museum of antiquities, beside the spinning wheel and the bronze ax.
State (n.) is society's admission that it has fallen into insoluble self-contradiction — a power arisen from society, placed above it, and increasingly alienated from it.
The State (n.) grows its public power with class antagonism until, as in Europe today, it threatens to devour the whole of society and even the state itself.
Patriarchy (n.) began as the world-historical defeat of the female sex — palliated and glossed over since, but in no sense abolished.
Patriarchy (n.) bore its first fruit in Athens: children sold by their fathers into slavery for debt.
Slavery (n.) arrived almost with exchange itself: hardly had men begun to exchange than they themselves were being exchanged.
Slavery (n.) brought down Athens, not democracy: it banned the labour of free citizens and turned them into social scrap.
Marriage (n.) is moral, if only love makes it moral, only for as long as love continues.
Marriage (n.) works like grammar, where two negatives make an affirmative: it lets two prostitutions pass for a virtue.
Civilization (n.) has been driven from its first day by sheer greed — wealth, wealth and more wealth for the single scurvy individual; science and art dropped into its lap only because wealth needed them.
Civilization (n.) makes the difference between rights and duties clear even to the dullest, by giving one class nearly all the rights and the other nearly all the duties.
Housework (n.) was once a public, socially necessary industry; the monogamous family turned it into private service and the wife into head servant.
Housework (n.) once secured woman's supremacy in the house; when the division of labor outside the home changed, the same confinement secured the man's — her work no longer counted.
The Family (n.) was never an organizational unit of the gens, since husband and wife belonged to different gentes; even today the state recognizes it only in private law.
The Family (n.) originally meant not the married couple and their children but the slaves: familia was the total of slaves belonging to one man.
The Gens (n.) is older than the mythology it created, with all its gods and demigods.
The Gens (n.) lived by liberty, equality and fraternity long before anyone formulated them.
Money (n.) is the commodity of commodities, holding all others hidden within it — the magic power that can change at will into anything desired.
Money (n.) was invented without its inventors knowing they had created a new social power — the one general power before which all society must bow.