Entrails Konfetti
17th May 2006, 03:38
I've just got done reading Orgins of Family, Private Property, and the State. I read the whole book on-line, I'm proud of myself! :)
Anyways, Engels explains that property was at first in common among the gens, then it went to the family household, and finally it was transfered to the individual.
He doesn't really explain the stage of property held by the family household, he just produces anthropologitic evidence that such a stage occured, but he admits he doesn't know how-- other than such a stage was very shortlived.
This era is mentioned mostly when he discusses the controversy of the settlement of the Germanic tribes-- whether at this time of settlement the property was divided in common among the of gens or of the family household. The only conclusion he makes is that no matter what stage the Germanic tribes were in once they settled, they were living in a primitive communist society.
I know this book is over a hundred years old, so I'm wondering if there is any new knowledge about the development of property relations, specifically about how the family household developed from then gens, and the family household to individual property.
Anyways, Engels explains that property was at first in common among the gens, then it went to the family household, and finally it was transfered to the individual.
He doesn't really explain the stage of property held by the family household, he just produces anthropologitic evidence that such a stage occured, but he admits he doesn't know how-- other than such a stage was very shortlived.
This era is mentioned mostly when he discusses the controversy of the settlement of the Germanic tribes-- whether at this time of settlement the property was divided in common among the of gens or of the family household. The only conclusion he makes is that no matter what stage the Germanic tribes were in once they settled, they were living in a primitive communist society.
I know this book is over a hundred years old, so I'm wondering if there is any new knowledge about the development of property relations, specifically about how the family household developed from then gens, and the family household to individual property.