According to Wikipedia: "Friedrich Engels(28 November 1820 5 August 1895) was a German-English industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research. In 1848 he co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx's death E...

A classic of Marxism, Anti-Dühring was highly recommended by Lenin as a 'text book' of scientific socialism. It was originally written as a polemic against Eugen Dühring, a German revisionist who challenged the basic ideas of Marxism by counterposing his own 'scientific' theories within the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Very reluctantly, Engels was forced to take up these ideas and in doing so explained in the clearest fashion the revolutionary theories of Marxism.The origina...

"Since civilisation is founded on the exploitation of one class by another class, its whole development proceeds in a constant contradiction. Every step forward in production is at the same time a step backward in the position of the oppressed class, that is, of the great majority."First published in 1884, The Origin of the Family is one of the most important works of Marxist theory. Basing himself on the research of anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan, Friedrich Engels builds on his...

This little book was not planned as a book. In 1877 and 1878 Engels spent the best part of a year answering Eugen Duehring, a Berlin lecturer who had announced his conversion to socialism and presented the German public with a whole new system. The reply ran to a fat volume of philosophy, economics and natural science - Anti-Duehring. Then, as Engels tells the story in the introduction printed here, "At the request of my friend, Paul Lafargue ... I arranged three chapters of this book as a...

Engels wrote this book to settle a debt, and he was forty years late paying it.In 1845 he and Marx had shut themselves up in Brussels to write out, at length, what separated them from the German philosophy they had grown up in. The manuscript never found a printer; they left it "to the gnawing criticism of the mice all the more willingly as we had achieved our main purpose - self-clarification". Four decades passed. Marx died. Neither had ever gone back to Ludwig Feuerbach, the man...

According to Wikipedia: "Friedrich Engels (28 November 1820 5 August 1895) was a German social scientist and philosopher, who developed communist theory alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto (1848). Engels also edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx's death."

According to Wikipedia: "Friedrich Engels(28 November 1820 5 August 1895) was a German-English industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research. In 1848 he co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx's death E...

Engels wrote The Housing Question as journalism, in the heat of a quarrel. It began as three series of articles for the Leipzig Volksstaat across 1872 and 1873, prompted by a Proudhonist doctor, A. Muelberger, who proposed to cure the housing shortage of the new German industrial towns by turning the tenant into an owner - converting rent into the instalments of a purchase, so that every worker might in time possess his own cottage.The book's strength is that it refuses to treat ho...

This is the book that founded a world outlook, and its author did not want to write it. Engels says so in the first sentence of the first preface: "The following work is by no means the fruit of any 'inner urge'. On the contrary."Eugen Duehring, a lecturer at Berlin University who wrote at enormous speed on everything, had announced himself a socialist - and not merely a socialist but the author of a complete new system covering philosophy, political economy and the shape of the so...

Engels wrote The Peasant War in Germany in London in the summer of 1850 - "while still under the immediate impression of the counter-revolution just then completed", as his preface puts it - with the wounds of the defeated revolution of 1848-49 still open. It is a short, fierce book about a distant event: the great rising of German peasants and plebeians in 1525, which Marx had called "the most radical fact of German history".What it does supremely well is to read a war fought unde...

Engels wrote this book in the spring of 1884, in about two months, out of a dead man's notebooks.Marx had spent the last years of his life reading Lewis Henry Morgan's Ancient Society (1877), an American lawyer's study of the Iroquois and of ancient Greece and Rome, and had filled a long abstract with critical remarks; he meant to write the book himself and did not live to do it. Engels, as he says in his 1884 preface, offered "but a meagre substitute for that which my departed fri...