The Death of Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Engels's Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx, given at Highgate Cemetery in 1883, with four short articles on Marx's funeral and death. In a few pages it sums up Marx's two great discoveries: historical materialism and surplus value.
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Manifesto of the Communist Party & Principles of CommunismThe 1848 program Marx and Engels wrote for the Communist League, paired with Engels's earlier question-and-answer draft. It opens with the spectre haunting Europe and closes with the call for workers of all countries to unite.
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Engels's 1847 draft of the communist program, written as 25 short questions and answers. It reads as a plain-language first version of the Communist Manifesto and is one of the quickest ways into his ideas.
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Engels's most widely read work, adapted from three chapters of Anti-Dühring. It traces socialism from the utopian thinkers Saint-Simon, Fourier and Owen to historical materialism in under a hundred pages.
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Engels's full-length reply to the philosopher Eugen Dühring and the most complete statement of Marxist ideas he ever wrote. It covers philosophy, political economy and socialism, including the chapters later published as Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
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Three articles from 1872 on the housing shortage in industrial cities. Engels argues against Proudhon's followers and middle-class reformers that no housing plan can solve the problem while capitalist production lasts.
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