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Actually reading The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. It’s actually very good. Does anyone know an update to this? Like, a lot of the science and anthropology must have changed in the last 130 or so years.
I would recommend Lise Vogel’s Marxism and the Oppression of Women! She gives a comprehensive overview of the history of social feminist theory and the history of women’s issues in the communist movement starting with ‘The Origin’ and the Second Party Congress, going through industrial feminism, second wave feminism, 70s and 80s social feminism, before giving her own analysis.
The book is worth reading as a whole, but you might be interested in it just for her critique of Engels!
Ah great, thank you. I’m sure Engels is going to fuck up a bit, he was a non specialist writing in the 19 century. 😊
Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed. Reads like a novel. Amazing.
Grapes of Wrath
Making my way through * Selections From the Prison Notebooks of Gramsci. I’m definitely getting a lot out of , just finished the section on Italian History which was a slog, but I’m glad I read it.
Anyone else read them?
