Friedrich Engels

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Friedrich Engels (English /ˈɛŋɡəlz/ or /ˈɛŋəlz/; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɛŋəls]; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist and businessman. He founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in Manchester.

In 1848 he co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, though he also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx's death, Engels edited the second and third volumes. Additionally, Engels organised Marx's notes on the "Theories of Surplus Value," which he later published as the "fourth volume" of Capital. He has also made contributions to family economics.

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The Communist Manifesto Apr 8, 2020

by Karl Marx

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Originally published in German (as Manifest der kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts.The Communist Manifesto (officially Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political manifesto by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that laid out the programme of the Communist League.

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The Marx-Engels Reader Oct 26, 2018

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

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Beautifully designed and carefully proofed for digital publication, this new edition includes:
• Expended Introduction;
• Detailed Notes;
• Expansive Bibliography;
• Complete, unabridged, and formatted text for kindle to improve your reading experience;
• Table of Contents with Quick Navigation.

This edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels—those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology. The volume is arranged to show both the chronological and the thematic development of the two great thinkers. Selections range in coverage from history, society, and economics, to politics, philosophy, and the strategy and tactics of social revolution.

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The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition Apr 4, 2012

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Eric Hobsbawm

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In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word “capitalism” itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives. But with the outbreak of financial crisis and global recession in the twenty-first century, capitalism is once again up for discussion. The status quo can no longer be taken for granted.

As Eric Hobsbawm argues in his acute and elegant introduction to this modern edition, in such times The Communist Manifesto emerges as a work of great prescience and power despite being written over a century and a half ago. He highlights Marx and Engels’s enduring insights into the capitalist system: its devastating impact on all aspects of human existence; its susceptibility to enormous convulsions and crises; and its fundamental weakness.

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The Communist Manifesto Jul 16, 2018

by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

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Celebrating Karl Marx’s 200th Birth Anniversary

The Communist Manifesto has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the League’s purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism’s potential future forms.

The book contains Marx and Engels’ theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism.

Born in Westphalia in 1820, Friedrich Engels was the son of a textile manufacturer. After military training in Berlin and already a convert to communism, Engels went to Manchester in 1842 to represent the family firm. A relationship with a millhand, Mary Bums, and friendship with local Owenites and Chartists helped to inspire his famous early work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.

Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, Germany and studied in Bonn and Berlin. Influenced by Hegel, he later reacted against idealist philosophy and began to develop his own theory of historical materialism. He related the state of society to its economic foundations and mode of production, and recommended armed revolution on the part of the proletariat.

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The German Ideology, including Theses on Feuerbach (Great Books in Philosophy) Oct 24, 2011

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

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Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote "The German Ideology" in 1845 with friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels expounding a new political worldview, including positions on materialism, labour, production, alienation, the expansion of capitalism, class conflict, revolution, and eventually communism. They chart the course of 'true' socialism based on Hegel's dialectic, while criticising the ideas of Bruno Bauer, Max Stirner and Ludwig Feuerbach. Marx expanded his criticism of the latter in his now famous Theses on Feuerbach, found after Marx's death and published by Engels in 1888. "Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy", also found among the posthumous papers of Marx, is a fragment of an introduction to his main works. Combining these three works, this volume is essential for an understanding of Marxism.

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Stirner: The Ego and its Own (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) Apr 6, 1995

by Max Stirner, David Leopold

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Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own is striking and distinctive in both style and content. First published in 1844, Stirner's distinctive and powerful polemic sounded the death-knell of left Hegelianism, with its attack on Ludwig Feuerbach, Bruno and Edgar Bauer, Moses Hess and others. It also constitutes an enduring critique of both liberalism and socialism from the perspective of an extreme eccentric individualism. Karl Marx was only one of many contemporaries provoked into a lengthy rebuttal of Stirner's argument. Stirner has been portrayed, variously, as a precursor of Nietzsche (both stylistically and substantively), a forerunner of existentialism and as an individualist anarchist. This edition of his work comprises a revised version of Steven Byington's much praised translation, together with an introduction and notes on the historical background to Stirner's text.

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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Jun 2, 2021

by Frederich Engels

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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific is a short book first published in 1880 by German-born socialist Friedrich Engels. The work was primarily extracted from a longer polemic work published in 1876, Anti-Dühring. It first appeared in the French language.

The book has been an enormously popular book, and enjoys a level of prestige that ranks it alongside The Communist Manifesto. It explores the difference between early socialists (considered utopian) and the modern scientific socialists embodied in Karl Marx.

The book explains the differences between utopian socialism and scientific socialism, which Marxism considers itself to embody. The book explains that whereas utopian socialism is idealist, reflects the personal opinions of the authors and claims that society can be adapted based on these opinions, scientific socialism derives itself from reality. It focuses on the materialist conception of history, which is based on an analysis over history, and concludes that communism naturally follows capitalism.

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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Mar 27, 2012

by Friedrich Engels, Edward Aveling

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Pocket Hardbacks) Jul 1, 2004

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Gareth Stedman Jones, Gareth Jones

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'An astonishing masterpiece ... a political classic ... has an almost biblical force' Eric Hobsbawm

The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary 1848 summons to the working classes, is one of the most influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property or a state. They argue that increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which capitalism is overthrown. Their vision transformed the world irrevocably, and remains relevant as a depiction of global capitalism today.

Edited with an Introduction by GARETH STEDMAN JONES

Das Kommunistische Manifest | Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (Kommentierte Ausgabe) (German Edition) Dec 5, 2011

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

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Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei | Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu lektoriert, mit modernisierter Rechtschreibung, zahlreichen Fußnoten und eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis | Begleitwort des Herausgebers im Anhang
Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei ist eine Schrift wie ein Fanal, jeder Satz ein Treffer. Eine akkurate Beschreibung der damaligen Zustände, eine theoretische Handlungsanweisung zur Neugründung einer Gesellschaft, die in ihrer Kühnheit mitreisst. Das Wort ›theoretisch‹ kann jedoch nicht genug betont werden. Denn die Geschichte hat gezeigt, dass eine Umsetzung – aus vielfältigen Gründen – scheitert. Doch die Aktualität des Kommunistischen Manifests springt einem beim Lesen geradezu entgegen.
Aus einer Rezensionen: »Das Kommunistische Manifest ist immer noch unübertroffen: Prägnant, polemisch, analytisch. Ein geraffter Streifzug durch die Geschichte und die geniale Vorhersage der Globalisierung des Kapitalismus. – Man mag über Marx denken, was man will; aber man muss wenigstens dieses kurze Extrakt seiner Erkenntnisse gelesen haben.«

Karl Marx (1818–1883) war ein deutscher Gesellschaftstheoretiker, Philosoph und Ökonom. Vom politischen Schriftsteller entwickelte er sich zum Vordenker einer ganzen Weltanschauung und Philosophie, die man heute mit dem Oberbegriff Marxismus kennzeichnet.
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) war ein deutscher Gesellschaftstheoretiker, Historiker und kommunistischer Revolutionär. Darüber hinaus war er erfolgreicher Unternehmer in der Textilindustrie. Engels entwickelte zusammen mit Karl Marx die heute als Marxismus bezeichnete Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftstheorie. Im Jahr 1848 verfassten sie gemeinsam im Auftrag des Bundes der Kommunisten das ›Kommunistische Manifest‹.

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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Penguin Classics) Apr 8, 2010

by Friedrich Engels

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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies. Under this patriarchal system, women were servants and, effectively, prostitutes. Only Communism would herald the dawn of communal living and a new sexual freedom and, in turn, the role of the state would become superfluous.

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Collected Works of Marxism, Anarchism, Communism: The Communist Manifesto, Reform or Revolution, The Conquest of Bread, Anarchism: What it Really Stands ... Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It Aug 17, 2021

by Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Friedrich Engels, Dmytro Rybalko, Mary Fox

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This book contains the fundamental works of Marxism, Anarchism and Bolshevism:
The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels;
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg;
The Conquest of Bread by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin;
Anarchism: What it Really Stands For by Emma Goldman;
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin;
Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It by Leon Trotsky.

Translated by Mary Fox.
Illustrated by Dmytro Rybalko.

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