Engels publishes The Peasant War in Germany

The lectures, delivered to workers in 1847, were published as a series in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Marx explained wages as the price of labor-power and linked workers’ bargaining to the wider...

After the defeat of revolutionary movements and state repression, the paper was forced to close. Its final issue printed in red ink symbolized the defeat of the democratic uprising; Marx was...

Engels fought with revolutionary forces during the final phase of the 1848-49 uprisings. His military participation reflected a belief that political rights and social change would face armed state...

London became Marx’s home for the rest of his life. The family endured recurring poverty and illness while Marx researched capitalism in the British Museum and relied on Engels’s regular financial...

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...

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...

Marx analyzed the 1851 coup in France, showing how class alliances, political institutions, and state power shaped authoritarian rule. The work turned recent political defeat into a method for...

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...