Böcker av Ernest Untermann

Friedrich Engels' treatise on family economics and its connection with human history and development is published here in full.Engels examines the primitive tribal societies of the Native Americans, where matriarchal arrangements were relatively commonplace. He proposes that the effects that monogamy and the increasing levels of private property decreased the influence of women in family life and thus the wider society; a process which Engels believed had advanced over thousands of years of advancing human civilization. Engels argues that women were able to bond and work together on a principle of sisterhood; he argues that this occurrence is a form of primitive communism. In the modern day, Engels' arguments in favor of matrilineal heritage in early human societies are generally disregarded. However, anthropologists such as Christopher Knight believe there is merit in Engels' claims, and criticize the prevailing views.

The classic explanation of Karl Marx's economic theories, by American socialist Ernest Untermann. The theory of historical materialism, the labor theory of value, the theory of surplus value, wage labor and profits, pre-capitalist societies, and the economic transition from feudalism to capitalism. Written for an audience of rank-and-file working people during the early union movement, "Marxist Economics" presents the most influential economic theories in history, in a non-technical way for non-economists.