L'origine della Famiglia della Proprietà privata e dello Stato / in relazione alle ricerche di L. H. Morgan

The book applies a materialist analysis to prehistoric and early societies, using ethnographic evidence to trace how kinship groups, marriage systems, and communal ownership gradually gave way to private property, inheritance rules, and patriarchal household forms. It examines the economic and social origins of women's subordination, the formation of class divisions, and the emergence of the state as an apparatus that secures property relations. Combining comparative anthropology with historical argument, it contends that legal and moral ideas follow changes in modes of production and that transformations in economic organization reshape family life and political authority.