The Holy Family

Engels's account of how he and Marx broke with Hegel and the Young Hegelians. In four short parts it explains the move from idealism to materialism and gives one of the clearest summaries of historical materialism.

Friedrich Engels

Written by Marx and Engels in 1845 and 1846 but unpublished until 1932, this is where they first set out the materialist conception of history. Includes the critique of Feuerbach and Stirner and an appendix with Marx's Theses on Feuerbach.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Engels's unfinished essays and notes on physics, chemistry and biology seen through materialist dialectics. Includes the well-known essay The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man and a preface by J.B.S. Haldane.

Friedrich Engels