Engels have followed Morgan's general outline of the three main epochs of social evolution which is savagery, barbarism, and civilization. Engels have based his work upon the works of his Historians and Anthropologists predecessors such as Johann Jakob Bachofen's Mother Right, John Ferguson McLennan's Primitive Marriage, and most importantly Lewis Henry Morgan's Ancient Society, whom the general outline of the book was built upon.
It provided a systematic social explanation for the emergence of women's oppression in relation to the historical development of social institutions, together with the birth of private property, the rise of patriarchy and the establishment of the State. The Origins of Private Property and the State by Frederick Engels was first published in 1884.
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