Come Join Charlotte Metro DSA in reading The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by  Frederick Engels. If you RSVP (see source link below) you will be emailed a link to a PDF of the book! Additionally you may purchase a copy of the book from RSVP’s will be sent a PDF of the text, but you can purchase a copy off: https://foreignlanguages.press/foundations/the-origin-of-the-family-private-property-and-the-state-frederick-engels/.

We will be reflecting on the preface, chapter 1, and chapter 2 of the book, so please read those prior to attending! Additionally, on our we have created a thread for members to discuss the book in between sessions. Please refer to our #reading group discussion channel on discord for that thread (if you are not a member yet, you can sign up on dsa.org, which should give you access to our discord).

Also note! This is quite an old book, so some of the science and terminology used has nowadays been rightfully deemed outdated at best, and chauvinistic at worst. Nevertheless, we are reading this book because it is a fundamental piece of Marxist theory, and the ability for us to identify the core aspects of truth within the text and criticize those which are no longer is important for our own development as socialists.