Why was this revolution called a political revolution?ĩ. In what way did the political revolution Engels describes restore tribal rights and in what way did it abolish tribal rights?Ĩ.

What form of property did the constitution of 594 BCE attack and what form of property did it promote?ħ. Could you say that capitalism existed at that time? If not, why not?Ħ. Engels talks about the impact of commodity production, money, markets, credit and debt on ancient Greece. What rights did women have in ancient Greece?ĥ. What is relation between territory, kinship and rights - in tribal times, in early Greece before the time of Solon, and nowadays?Ĥ. What were the factors that brought about the downfall of the old gentile constitution in Greece? Which do you think was the most important?ģ. What is the difference between the “people in arms” and an armed “public force”, and do you think an armed “public force” is something which is feasible now or in the future?Ģ. What does Engels say is/will be the impact of capitalism on the family?ġ. Do you think Engels regards monogamy as the highest form of family possible, as the ideal form, so to speak? Or is Engels hinting at future forms of family relationship beyond capitalism?ġ1. What do you make of: “The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.”?ġ0. What does Engels see as the cause for the fall of mother-right and the institution of monogamy?ĩ. What, according to Engels, is the relation between monogamy and the overthrow of mother-right?Ĩ.

What do you know of the marriage practices, taboos, rights of inheritance, and so on, in the history of the indigenous people of your own country?ħ. What vestiges of mother-right do you see in your own modern society?Ħ. So far as you know, in what sense are all forms of family known in human societies different from anything found, for instance, among the primates, if any?ĥ.

What argument does Engels use to reject the idea that pair-bonding was the form of family at the very beginning of human development?Ĥ.

Marx notes Morgan's observation about “systems of consanguity” and says “the same is true of the political, juridical, religious, and philosophical systems in general”. What does “consanguinity” mean and what is meant by the “consanguine family”?Ģ.

Family private property and the state