Friedrich Engels: 175 books

Un piccolo grande libro che ha cambiato la storia del mondo Alienazione, sfruttamento, mito della crescita economica infinita: sono le patologie su cui si fonda, secondo l’analisi di Marx ed Engels, il modo capitalistico di produzione. Le contraddizioni di questo sistema economico furono...

Animado por las conclusiones a las que el antropólogo Lewis H. Morgan había llegado en sus estudios sobre la evolución de la sociedad primitiva a la sociedad industrializada, Engels decidió escribir esta obra para mostrar la validez de las tesis del materialismo histórico a la hora de explicar...

Como Marx expone en el prólogo a la Crítica de la Economía política, la finalidad que Marx y Engels perseguían al escribir La ideología alemana era "desentrañar conjuntamente el antagonismo entre nuestra concepción y la de la ideológica de la filosofía alemana; en realidad, ajustar...

The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important and 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...

Featuring an extensive, provocative introduction by historian Martin Malia, this authorized English translation of The Communist Manifesto, edited and annotated by Engels, with prefaces to editions published between 1872 and 1888, provides a new opportunity to examine the document that shook the...

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...

The book REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION: GERMANY IN 1848 has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the title directly. In REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION, Marx and Engels presented a detail picture of what happened in German states during 1848. They described...

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...

In what he presented as an extraordinarily popular piece, Engels critiques the utopian socialists, such as Fourier and Owen, and provides an explanation of the socialist framework for understanding capitalism, and an outline of the progression of social and economic development from the perspective of historical materialism.

This forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns, and for miners and agricultural workers in a savage indictment of the greed of the bourgeoisie. His later preface,...

“If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good intellectual reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wishing to act with others, to ‘do something,’...

Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War, with Marx writing on behalf of the International Working Men’s Association. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the urgency of suppressing slavery and the cause of “free labor.”...

Edition enrichie (introduction et notes) Marx et Engels avaient respectivement trente et vingt-huit ans lorsque fut publié, en 1848, leur manifeste: ces jeunes intellectuels allemands bouleversent alors le monde du travail qui prend conscience de lui-même. La lutte des classes est considérée...

« Les grands hommes de l’Allemagne de 1848 étaient sur le point de connaître une fin sordide quand la victoire des “tyrans” pourvut à leur sûreté, les envoyant à l’étranger et faisant d’eux des martyrs et des saints. Ils furent sauvés par la contre-révolution. Mais il fallait rappeler...