Engels publishes a history of the Communist League

Engels cautioned against a purely sentimental reading of Egypt’s national movement, while recognizing the strategic role of imperial power. The letter displays both an emerging anti-imperialist...

Marx died after decades of research, political writing, and exile. His influence was still limited compared with its later global reach; Engels became the principal editor and interpreter of his...

Engels described Marx as a revolutionary thinker and organizer whose work joined analysis with political struggle. The speech helped shape Marx’s posthumous reputation; its account should be read as a...

Using notes Marx had made on Lewis Morgan, Engels linked family forms, property, and state development. The book influenced socialist and feminist debates, but its evolutionary anthropology reflects...

Engels assembled and edited Marx’s unfinished manuscripts on the circulation of capital. The volume’s organization was an act of scholarship as well as collaboration, and later researchers continue to...

In a preface for an English edition of his earlier Manchester study, Engels revisited industrial change and the political movement of workers. The appendix reflected four decades of transformation and...

Engels revisited the intellectual origins of their materialist approach and clarified his own account of philosophy and history. The essay helped define how later generations understood Marx and...

Samuel Moore’s translation, revised with Engels, introduced the Manifesto to a wider English-reading public. Its circulation depended on translators, publishers, organizers, and workers, not simply on...

Socialist parties and labor organizations from many countries established a new international association. Engels encouraged the movement but did not control it; debates over colonialism, nationalism,...

Following an 1889 decision by the Second International, workers held demonstrations for the eight-hour day and labor rights. Engels welcomed international working-class organization, whose action...