Frederick Engels

Sexual equality is in our genes

Marxist thinkers from Frederick Engels to Dorothy Ballan have long maintained that, for most of human existence, the social structure…

July 23, 2015

Tribute to Leslie Feinberg

She brought ‘trans’ into labor’s vocabulary In 1895, the year that Frederick Engels died, a 25-year-old V.I. Lenin wrote a…

December 14, 2014

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 30

Final thoughts This series has sought to shed a historical materialist spotlight on the human social/sexual relationship usually referred to…

February 8, 2014

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 28

Women and revolution “As we come marching, marching, we bring the greater days, The rising of the women means the…

January 18, 2014

‘Affluenza’ & the Marxist cure

People everywhere were shocked and outraged that the son of a Texas factory owner, Ethan Couch, was given probation after…

January 10, 2014

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 25

Working-class marriage under capitalism In setting the stage for an examination of working-class marriage in the epoch of capitalist society,…

December 13, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 18

The ‘Privatization’ of Marriage Where did the innovation of private property — a concept totally alien to foraging and hunting…

September 27, 2013

Income gap grows still wider

For ever so long, workers have been told that this capitalist system we live under works to our benefit. Sure,…

September 18, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 11

Domesticating the hunters – Knight’s hypothesis British anthropologist Chris Knight has joined a host of militant workers in capitalist society…

August 4, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage’

Part 1: Two schools of thought lock horns Supreme Court decisions are expected sometime in June on the constitutionality of…

May 22, 2013