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One hundred years after the death of Friedrich Engels, the long-time colleague of Karl Marx continues to influence the thought of socialist thinkers. This critical reappraisal of Engels addresses his relevance after both the death of Marx and the decline of Marxism, bringing Engels out from under the shadow of Marx to show the theoretical significance and historical impact of his wide-ranging criticisms for philosophy, science, political economy, history, and socialist politics.This collection of original essays seeks to determine the nature of Engels's role as an independent socialist thinker, showing how his views coincided with or diverged from those of Marx. Leading experts in political theory examine such topics as scientific socialism, Engels's understanding of the relation between internationalism and the "national question," and feminist views on Engels.The contributors offer new readings of Engels's texts, pursuing errors and omissions, uncovering his rhetorical maneuvers, and pointing to insights and conclusions in his thought that appear to have withstood the test of time. Engels after Marx attests both to the legacy of this political philosopher for contemporary left thought and to the legacy of Marxist socialism in the wake of upheavals in international Communism. ... Read more

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Reification of Marxism
Engels' Condition of the Working Class in England is one of the great studies of capitalism, and initiated the early Marx into the study of political economy. These essays tell the tale of the endgame, the fate of the vehicle created by Marx so soon frittered away in the period of Engels, in the ambiguities of Hegelianism, the dialectic as science, and the dangers or blessings of revisionism. Echoes of Norman Levine's The Tragic Deception force the question of Engels betraying the fine edge of the original theoretical Marxism, fair or not, and an egregious issue to those who find the real and deeper flaws in Marx's foundations.This version, however of the seminal Marx and the reifying Engels does not quite match the deeper difficulties, among them the obvious dangers of chaotification in making crypto-Hegelianism into the principles of a mass movement, in age also beset by the worst kind of positivist scientism.
One essay, Engels, Lukacs, and Kant's Thing in Itself, unwittingly and quite poignantly suggests the prophecy of the unstable post-Hegelian philosophic orphan spawning a dialectical tragedy that befell the whole project, in the era of Bernstein,and then Lenin. ... Read more

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Brian Wells, Esquire, reviews Collected Works (Vol. 4)
This is the fourth volume of the massive 50 volume undertaking started by International Publishers of New York in 1975.The entire 50 volume set attempts to collect in one place an English version of everthing written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.

Marx and Engels writing in the nineteenth century had vastly more impact on the twentieth century than on their own century.The Collected Works provides the reader with not only a description and analysis of events as they happened, the 1848 revolutionary upsurge across Europe, the Crimean War, the Paris Commune and even the United States Civil War, but also provides ample background into the thoughts of Marx and Engels through the publication of their letters to each other as well as to third parties.

The fourth volume itself, covering the years 1844-1845, contains the classic article "The Holy Family" on which both writers collaborated and Engels' article "The Condition of the Working Class in England." These articles alone are worthy additions to the library of a person attempting to understand Marxism. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Dialectical materialism; Socialism; Dialectic (Economics); Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism ... Read more

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A spectre is haunting Europe--the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. ... Read more

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This definitive edition of the Communist Manifesto, prepared for its 150th anniversary, includes a foreword by Marxist scholar Paul M. Sweezy, co-editor of Monthly Review, the full text of the Communist Manifesto, in a distinctive and pleasing hand-set typeface, the important catechism Principles of Communism, drafted by Engels in 1847 as a basis for the Manifesto, and "The Communist Manifesto After 150 Years," a far-reaching interpretive essay by Ellen Meiksins Wood, co-editor of Monthly Review.

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An excellent introduction to Communism.
This is *THE* book to read if you wish to learn what Communism is about, not the Stalinist perversions of Karl's system.To all the Capitalist ignoramuses out there, read this and other works of Marx and find out how wrong, and in fact, how idiotic your assertion is that Marxism failedbecause of the failure of the Soviet Union, which was a peversion ofMarxism created by Stalin.Being one read on the works of Marx, Lenin andTrotsky, I know that True Communism, and the struggle to achieve the same,is the exact opposite of everything these tyrannical systems were.EvenLenin and Trotsky themselves realized that Stalinism was a step backwardsfrom Communism, and needed to be stopped.It's really sad you can't acceptfacts that contradict your view of Socialism being wicked and evil, and canonly listen to assumption-based and ignorance-based claims thatTotalitarianism is the only system that can come from Socialist struggle,and that Socialism,and that Socialism is somehow supposedly anti-freedom. Socialism is anti-exploitation.Socialism is anti-domination.Socialismis anti-totalitarianism.This is what Socialism is about, and this is whatMarx was about. ... Read more

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Publisher: New York, New York labor news companyPublication date: 1902Subjects: WagesCapitalFree tradeNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Part of a definitive English-language edition, prepared in collaboration with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Moscow, this volume contains the correspondence between Karl Marx and Frederick Engels from the latter part of the 19th century. The series contains all the works of Marx and Engels, whether published in their lifetimes or since. The series includes their complete correspondence and newly discovered works. ... Read more