The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels & Tristram Hunt

Author:Friedrich Engels & Tristram Hunt [Engels, Friedrich & Hunt, Tristram]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Communism; Post-Communism & Socialism, Sociology, Social Science, American Government, Philosophy, Political, History & Theory, Marriage & Family, General, Anthropology, Political Ideologies, Political Science, Social History, Economic History, Business & Economics, History
ISBN: 9780141191119
Google: DabBgLECC5cC
Amazon: 0141191112
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2010-04-29T00:41:10+00:00

All the members of an Iroquois gens were personally free, and they were bound to defend each other’s freedom; they were equal in privileges and in personal rights, the sachem and chiefs claiming no superiority; and they were a brotherhood bound together by the ties of kin. Liberty, equality, and fraternity, though never formulated, were cardinal principles of the gens. These facts are material, because the gens was the unit of a social and governmental system, the foundation upon which Indian society was organized … It serves to explain that sense of independence and personal dignity universally an attribute of Indian character [pp. 85–6].

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