The state, then, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies that did without it, that had no idea of the state and state power. At a certain stage of economic development, which was necessarily bound up with the cleavage of society into classes, this cleavage made the state a necessity.
— Friedrich Engels Modern

Communist Manifesto co-author

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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Date / Period

1884

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Controversial

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch09.htm

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