BOOK / THE MATRIARCHY. Paul Lafargue

NARRATIVE

We live under the regime of the patriarchal family: women and children are grouped around the figure of the father, empowered by the laws and customs of familial society. The Bible, the sacred books of the East, and most philosophers, historians, and politicians have always assumed this structure as an indisputable truth inherent to human beings since their origins. However, in the past, many societies, including our own, were governed by the rules of matriarchy. What has determined this paradigm shift? In these pages, Lafargue reveals the mechanisms that patriarchal power has used to alter the course of history.

Paul Lafargue (1842-1911) was, in addition to being a writer, a doctor, journalist, and revolutionary activist, influenced first by the ideas of Proudhon, Blanqui, and Bakunin, and later by Karl Marx, whose son-in-law he became when he married his second daughter, Laura. After participating in the Paris Commune, he had to flee to Spain, where he remained for several years and spread Marxist ideology. Author of texts such as The Right to be Lazy (1880), The Religion of Capital (1887), and Socialism and the Intellectuals (1905), he committed suicide with his wife at the age of sixty-nine.

Title: El matriarcado
Author: Paul Lafargue
Pages: 120
Size: 11 x 17 cm
Weight: 120 grams
Genre: Fiction
Language: Spanish
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Altamarea
Year: 2021