The Early Stages Of Barbarism

In the earlier stages, barbarism was based on agriculture and the rearing of cattle. Civilization was based upon private property, introduced by commodity production. The period of savagery and barbarism constituted the period of “primitive communism”, where there were no restrictions on which men and women could have relations, living in common “long houses” with common property and children would be raised in common.
There were many different forms of family and sexual relationship. Some of these were group marriage, monogamy, promiscuous intercourse, to name a few. In terms of family structures, Engels argues that group marriage was the earliest form of the family. As societies developed, there began a sort of prohibition regarding sexual