The Evolution of Property from Savagery to Civilization

by Paul Lafargue

Descriptions of different political approaches to acquiring property, ·Forms of Contemporaneous Property
·Primitive Communism
·Family or Consanguine Collectivism
·Feudal Property
·Bourgeois Property Born in Cuba on January 15, 1842, Lafargue was a child of the New World, although he was a citizen of France. Educated and trained as a physician, he found his true calling as a revolutionary, a speaker, writer, agitator, and organizer on behalf of French working people. He took an active part in the Paris Commune and was one of the founders of the party of revolutionary socialists in France. He held public office and represented the French workers at international congresses. He also spent time in French jails.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

182 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1890

About the author

French revolutionary Marxist socialist and Karl Marx's son-in-law.Lafargue was born in Cuba to French and Creole parents. Karl Marx even once reffered to him by the n-word.

Lafargue his main work was called the right to be lazy. In which he calls upon not only the right to work, but also the right to be lazy. At the beginning of that book he claimed that the African slaves lived under better circumstances than the European worker.

At 69 he died together with his wife Laura in a suicide pact.

Reviews

[Rob James · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good summary with anthropological and historical examples for each stage

[Animesh Mitra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great.

[Kong · Rating 5 out of 5]

a true 'bible' for anthropologist

[Komal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great exploration of private property through the times, with examples. Lafargue shows how private property (and indeed capitalism) is not natural and is antithetical to community.

[Michael Condran]

Written by Karl Marx’s son-in-law! Almost made me wanta be a communist.