The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written March 1884


Written: March-May, 1884;
First Published: October 1884, in Hottingen-Zurich;
Source: Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume 3;
Translation: The text is essentially the English translation by Alick West published in 1942, but it has been revised against the German text as it appeared in MEW[Marx-Engels Werke] Volume 21, Dietz Verlag 1962, and the spelling of names and other terms has been modernised
Published in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 26
Collection(s): Ireland and the Irish Question (Marx-Engels)