![]() Once tribes settled onto a specific piece of land in order to farm it, the urge to claim the land and the fruits of the land evolved. ![]() So fundamental to human nature that it was hard to eliminate, property had to start at some point in society and the question was why and how? Engels located the origin of property in the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. Like the Utopian socialists before him, Engels imagined the end of the state and the coming of a communal equality, but the barrier is property. In 1884 Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Property was the cause of the fall of the human raced from grace. Almost without exception, from Rousseau to Hobbs, property was the equivalent to the apple in the Garden of Eden. For centuries, philosophers had been trying to determine the origin of property. ![]()
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