marx and engels maintained that the poverty, disease, and early death that afflicted the proletariat (the industrial working class) were endemic to capitalism: i have a friend who considers themselves a communist and wants to read capital. The origin of the family, private property, and the state. For previous weekly discussion topics, go to the weekly discussion schedule. He studied medicine at buenos aires. sierra leone was a feudal country before british colonization, and remained so under british protectorate rule. Harris writes that there were “there were kingdoms and chieftaincies…