This vision of American free labor was at war with the view being espoused by Marx and his patron and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, who wrote in The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: “The first condition for the liberation of the wife is to bring the whole female sex into public industry and … this in turn demands the abolition of the monogamous family as the economic unit of society.”13 Is it not a remarkable coincidence how global capitalism’s view of women—as units of production, liberated from husbands, home, and family—conforms so precisely to the view of the
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