Engels' 1884 book focusing on early human history, following the disintegration of the primitive community and the emergence of a class society based on private property. Engels looks into the origin ...

Portrait of a young revolutionary: Friedrich Engels at age 21, in 1842, the year he moved to Manchester–and the year before he met Mary Burns. Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels’ life appears replete ...

What a torch of reason ceased to burn, What a heart has ceased to beat! [1] On August 5 (new style), 1895, Frederick Engels died in London. After his friend Karl Marx (who died in 1883), Engels was ...

Mehring Books is pleased to make available to readers of the World Socialist Web Site Frederick Engels’ important essay, The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man. In this pamphlet, ...

In the antepenultimate chapter of his book Anti-Dühring Engels explains the differences between the "socialism" espoused by Professor Eugen Dühring and the socialism of Karl Marx and himself. Dühring ...

... Having learnt the purpose of my visit, Engels told me the following: "Germany is entering one of the gravest phases of its history, but let me add straightaway ...

In this penultimate chapter of Anti-Dühring Engels takes on Dühring's notions of how the social product will be distributed under his "socialitarian" system: Anti-Dühring, Part Three, Chapter IV. The ...