Friedrich Engels Maintained That Once Men Began to Build Up

question 97

Multiple Choice

Friedrich Engels maintained that once men began to build up a concentration of wealth,they became concerned with how to pass that wealth on to their legitimate sons.How did Engels believe men could safely pass their wealth on to their sons?

• A) only by allowing women equal rights at work
• B) only by controlling their wives sexually and economically
• C) only by creating egalitarian families
• D) only by shifting from capitalist to socialist economies

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