Engels is talking about the Christian family, but only incidentally. When he says that in the "modern individual family" the woman is a domestic slave, he must have in mind Christian families, since the Europeans of his time were overwhelmingly Christian. However, he's interested in the modern individual family insofar as it is a species of the broader phenomenon he is discussing, monogamy under private property relations. As he discusses in the same section of the book, that arrangement describes Greek and Roman pagan marriages as well as later Christian ones. Since these predate and do not depend on Christian ideas, he's not attacking Christianity per se here -- far from it. As for "radical leftists at state universities" -- the vast majority of university professors are in monogamous relationships roughly of the kind Engels describes, with the important caveat that in our time there are far greater legal protections for wives (a fantastic improvement since Engels' writing). It's not at all clear that they "hate" this form of the family or "teach" this hatred regularly. In other words, as usual, either you don't know what you're talking about or you have disingenuously ripped a statement out of context in order to increase your own sense of victimhood.
Engels is talking about the Christian family, but only incidentally. When he says that in the "modern individual family" the woman is a domestic slave, he must have in mind Christian families, since the Europeans of his time were overwhelmingly Christian. However, he's interested in the modern individual family insofar as it is a species of the broader phenomenon he is discussing, monogamy under private property relations. As he discusses in the same section of the book, that arrangement describes Greek and Roman pagan marriages as well as later Christian ones. Since these predate and do not depend on Christian ideas, he's not attacking Christianity per se here -- far from it. As for "radical leftists at state universities" -- the vast majority of university professors are in monogamous relationships roughly of the kind Engels describes, with the important caveat that in our time there are far greater legal protections for wives (a fantastic improvement since Engels' writing). It's not at all clear that they "hate" this form of the family or "teach" this hatred regularly. In other words, as usual, either you don't know what you're talking about or you have disingenuously ripped a statement out of context in order to increase your own sense of victimhood.
Husband and wives belong to each other.