Hello everybody and welcome back to Red Menace.

It has been a little while since our last episode but we are back and this time we are covering

as promised, Frederick Engels, the origin of the family, private property and the state.

This is a really exciting and fun text, also a really important and crucial one and one

that we are going to take our time with.

So we are going to be covering the first three, a little bit of the prefaces and you know,

Allison is going to contextualize it and then we are going to tackle the first three chapters

of this text today, have a discussion on them etc.

And then the next episode we are going to tackle the next three chapters and then finish

it out with the final three chapters at the end and that will be a three episode series

on this one text.

But today we are discussing chapters one, two and three of this text by Engels.

Allison, how are you doing?

Doing pretty good.

I am super excited to dive into this text.

It is a really important text for so many aspects of Marxism, right?

This is a text that is important when we are thinking about how Marxism has dealt with

questions of feminism and the framing of the woman question in Marxism.

It is important for theories of the state and it is also one of those cool times where

we get to see Engels like as someone who likes science, engaging scientific literature

of his time and just getting really excited about it, which I always appreciate with

this writing.

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