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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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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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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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Very useful life of Engels
John Green, a journalist and trade union official, has produced a useful biography of the great revolutionary Friedrich Engels. Marx and Engels always stressed that the working class, who are the vast majority in industrial countries, must take responsibility for their countries by seizing control from the selfish minority capitalist class.

They wrote in the Communist Manifesto, The modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisiethe bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into paid wage-labourers.

But Engels later slipped back from this clarity and suggested that skilled workers were labour aristocrats, bought off with crumbs from Britains trade and industrial monopoly

Green points out that the Manifesto gives an answer to social instability, unemployment, homelessness, pension uncertainty and social breakdown, by explaining that their causes are intrinsic to the system and do not lie in individual inadequacy.

He quotes Fidel Castro, Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesnt even know where north and south is. If you dont eventually come to truly understand the history of the class struggle, or at least have a clear idea that society is divided between the rich and the poor, and that some people subjugate and exploit other people, youre lost in a forest, not knowing anything.

Green sums up, Engels deserves to be not only remembered, but his works re-examined. Our society, on a global scale, is still divided into rich and poor, we still have rapacious capitalism, now on a much more globalised scale than in his day. In many countries of the world we still have slum housing, child labour and social conflict.His vision of a better and more just world and his understanding of history have not lost their relevance
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more