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Engels: ‘Thus when monogamous marriage first makes its appearance in history, it is not as the reconciliation of man and woman, still less as the higher form of such reconciliation. Quite the contrary. Monogamous marriage comes on the scene as the subjugation of the one sex by the other; it announces a struggle between the sexes unknown throughout the prehistorical period.’ (Engels was a lifelong bachelor…)