The son of wealthy textile manufacturers, Friedrich Engels enjoyed the good life that fortune afforded him, shared his wealth (including, famously, to support Karl Marx’s writing), and (mostly) rebelled against the bourgeois values which he was expected to embody. To buy Marx and Engels books and ebooks, visit Mehring Books. On this page, readers will find major works by Engels, as well as essays by leading Marxists on the significance of his life and work. Through the writings of such works as Anti-Dühring, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, Dialectics of Nature, and Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State, Engels secured the triumph of Marxism as the theoretical and political foundation of the world socialist movement. Engels’ intense intellectual and political collaboration with Marx, which continued throughout the latter’s 35-year exile and until his death in 1883, embraced the founding of the First International and Marx’s writing of Capital, which Engels ultimately completed after Marx’s death.
The Manifesto, commissioned as a program for the Communist League, established the programmatic foundations of the modern socialist movement.
In 1848, Engels assisted Marx in his writing of the Communist Manifesto. Between 18, Marx and Engels collaborated closely in the refutation of the idealist philosophy of the Young Hegelians, including in the publication of The German Ideology, which contained the first ever elaboration of the materialist conception of history. Friedrich Engels was the lifelong collaborator of Karl Marx, and played, after Marx himself, the leading role in the development of Marxism as a science and a revolutionary program for the working class in the 19th century.Įngels’ early work on political economy and his study of the conditions of the working class in England exerted an immense impression on the young Marx and directed the latter toward his study of political economy.
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