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Sunday, 17 May 2009 21:26 |
Before class society, the idea of a strictly monogamous pairing of males and females with their offspring–the nuclear family–was unknown to human society. Inequality was also unknown. For more than 2 million years, humans lived in groups made up of people who were mostly related by blood, in conditions of relative equality. This understanding is an important part of Marxist theory. This article investigates how society evolved from this situation of gender equality which made up the bulk of human existence, to the massive inequality that have defined the last few millennia.
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