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nydus/The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the StatePublic

This work examines the historical development of social institutions, including the family, private property, and the state, as products of human control over the environment and production. It critiques existing social structures by analyzing the evolution of human society through a socialist lens that emphasizes the role of class struggle.

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CHAPTER IV. THE GRECIAN GENS.

  1. A common burial ground. (See Demosthenes' Eubulides.)
  1. Right of mutual inheritance.
  1. Obligation to mutually help, protect and assist one another in case of violence.
  1. Mutual right and duty to intermarry in the gens in certain cases, especially for orphaned girls or heiresses.
  1. Possession of common property, at least in some cases, and an archon (supervisor) and treasurer elected for this special case.

The phratry united several gentes, but rather loosely. Still we find in it similar rights and duties, especially common religious rites and the right of avenging the death of a phrator. Again, all the phratries of a tribe had certain religious festivals in common that recurred at regular intervals and were celebrated under the guidance of a phylobasileus (tribal head) selected from the ranks of the nobles (eupatrides).

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