Hello and welcome to Bread Minus.

My name is Allison.

I am here as always with my co-host Brett and today you are coming in for our second episode

on Friedrich Engels Origins of the Family.

This is a text that we have broken up into multiple episodes.

We have done with a couple of past acts just because there is such a level of depth to it

that we have felt it is really worth getting into the nitty gritty and wrestling with the

details here.

In our previous episode we talked about chapters 1 through 3.

We will have a link in the bio to that episode.

But today we are going to go ahead and jump right into chapters 4, 5 and 6 where Engels

goes beyond just discussing the family and the gins and structures of kinship and actually

to theorizing about the state itself.

So some exciting topics to get into here and with that we will go ahead and just jump

right over to our summary section.

Let's do it.

Alright, so we will go ahead and jump straight into chapter 4 and here Engels begins by kind

of seeing what his attention of this chapter is which is to trace the history of the gins

in ancient Greek society along with some of the conditions which led to its decline.

So we get both a kind of alignment structure and then also what happened historically over

the course of Greek history that led to the fault of the gins ultimately.

An Engel states that the Greek gins is in many ways a mirror to the Eroquoid gins within

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