Engels went as far to claim that the only way marriage could ever be established as an institution that was inclusive of equality was to destroy all capitalist elements in society. The following is his statement:
Full freedom of marriage can therefore only be generally established when the abolition of capitalist production and of the property relations created by it has removed all the accompanying economic considerations which still exert such a powerful influence on the choice of a marriage partner. For then there is no other motive left except mutual inclination."
Thus is the claim of Engels but in reality the human nature would be inclined to classify itself in other ways that economical and it is most likely that another system of class distinction would arise in the place of the economical concessions that were the deciding factor as to marriages during that time period.
In another work entitled, "The Woman Question" the authors Edward and Eleanor Marx Aveling state that:
Society is morally bankrupt, and in nothing does this gruesome moral bankruptcy come out with a more hideous distinctness than in the relation between men and women. Efforts to postpone the crash by drawing bills upon the imagination are useless. The facts have to be faced.One of these facts of the most fundamental importance is not, and never has been, fairly confronted by the average man or woman in considering these relations. It has not been understood even by those men and women above the average who have made the struggle for the greater freedom of women the very business of their lives. This fundamental fact is that the question is one of economics. The position of women rests, as everything in our complex modern society rests, on an economic basis."
The Marxists belief stirred and awakened women throughout the world and the feminist mind-think entered the United States in the form of a communist society which was of a feminist nature. The writings of Marx...
In fact, the beliefs expressed in the Communist Manifesto penetrated every aspect of society since the time of its' writing along with the influence of other writings expressing the same refrain in relation to the rights of women. It is believed by many individuals that the real agenda for feminism being introduced to the United States was to tear down the family unit and by doing so to tear down the entire society making it vulnerable for the takeover of the Communist and Socialism.
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Aveling, Edward and Eleanor Marx (1886) "The Woman Question" Westminster Review 1886 Transcribed by Sally Ryan 2000 [Online] available at http://www.marxists.org/archive/eleanor-marx/works/womanq.htm
Engels, Frederich (1884) "The Origin of Family, Private Property and the State" Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume Three" Transcribed by Brian Basgen [Online] Marx/Engels Internet Archive (Marxists.org) 1993, 1999, 2000 available at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/index.htm
Marx, K. & Engels F. (1848) "The Manifesto of the Communist Party "Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume One, Progress Publishers, Moscow, USSR, 1969, pp. 98-137 Translated by Samuel Moore and F. Engels 1888, verified by Andy Blunden 2004 [Online] available at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index. htm
Boyer, George R. The Historical Background of the Communist Manifesto "152 Journal of Economic Perspectives"
Aveling, Edward and Eleanor Marx (1886) "The Woman Question" Westminster Review 1886 Transcribed by Sally Ryan 2000 [Online] available at http://www.marxists.org/archive/eleanor-marx/works/womanq.htm
Marxism and the Female: The Role of Women
