[Upd-discuss] Book: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Frederick Engels 1884

Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza zapopanmuela@yahoo.com
Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:45:27 -0800 (PST)


This analysis might be the one of the earliest
critical lines of thought denouncing the
systematic pillage of land and sea, wealth, etc.
by the earlier private appropietors, like the
Greek, where private property it is said to
begin. 

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http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/
Works of Frederick Engels 1884
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and
the State

Written: March-May, 1884
First Published: October 1884, in
Hottingen-Zurich
Source: Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume Three
Transcription/Markup: Zodiac/Brian Basgen
Online Version: Marx/Engels Internet Archive
(marxists.org) 1993, 1999, 2000
engels in his study

Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Preface to the First Edition
    Preface to the Fourth Edition
    Stages of Prehistoric Culture
    The Family
    The Consanguine Family (The First Stage of
the Family)
    The Punaluan Family
    The Pairing Family
    The Monogamous Family
    The Iroquois Gens
    The Greek Gens [The Rise of Private Property]
    The Rise of the Athenian State
    The Gens and the State in Rome
    The Gens Among Celts and Germans
    The Formation of the State Among the Germans
    Barbarism and Civilization
    Appendix: A Recently Discovered Case of Group
Marriage


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ENG: "Corporations are not democratic institutions --their directors and managers owe no accountability to anyone but the shareholders that employ them."
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ESP: "Las corporaciones (empresas) no son instituciones democráticas: a sus directores y gerentes no se les puede fincar responsabilidades ante nadie excepto ante sus accionistas que les emplean."

-- Bakan, Joel. (2004). The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power : La corporación (empresa). La búsqueda patológica de ganancias y poder. London: Constable & Robinson, p. 151


		
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