> Can someone lay quick hands on the source and text of
> the passage where Marx says, roughly, that you can
> tell the measure or level of a civilization by its
> treatment of women?
For a Marx/Engels reference on this point, quoting Fourier, see The Holy Family, Chapter 8, Part 6, available here:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/ch08_6.htm
Chris