Engels’s introduction reflected on changing conditions for socialist organization and electoral politics after the revolutions of 1848. Later readers debated whether it implied a turn toward gradualism; the text should be read in its specific political context and not as a simple repudiation of revolutionary change.
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Engels’s later political interventions should be treated as identical to Marx’s own views.
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Their work was connected but distinct, and Engels’s posthumous influence was substantial.