Marx publishes The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

The address urged workers to maintain independent organization during pauses in revolutionary activity and warned against subordinating their interests to liberal allies. It argued for political...

Engels interpreted the sixteenth-century peasant uprising through class conflict and the alliances of peasants, townspeople, and princes. His account broadened socialist history beyond elite politics,...

A dispute over whether another immediate uprising was likely divided the League. Marx and Engels opposed adventurist plans and stressed longer-term worker organization. The split exposed strategic...

Engels returned to commercial work to support himself and help sustain Marx’s research and family. His position gave the Marx-Engels partnership material resources, while underscoring the...

Written after Louis-Napoleon’s coup, the analysis traced how class alliances, rural politics, and the state enabled authoritarian rule. Marx treated political outcomes as shaped by inherited...

In journalism prompted by the Taiping upheaval and European politics, Marx linked China’s anti-dynastic rebellion to the commercial and political order of Europe. His account sometimes repeated...

Marx’s journalism condemned British violence and economic extraction but also framed colonial rule as a destructive force that would remake Indian society. The writing contains Eurocentric assumptions...

Engels followed Spain’s revolutionary crisis and examined the roles of military officers, popular mobilization, and liberal factions. His reporting linked local struggles to wider European contests...

During the global commercial crisis of 1857, Marx drafted extensive notebooks on money, production, circulation, and capital. The manuscripts remained unpublished until the twentieth century and...

The panic of 1857 disrupted trade and employment across the Atlantic world. Their correspondence connected market turmoil to industrial production and popular hardship; Marx used the crisis as an...