Utopian and Scientific is a condensed and accessible account of the historical development of socialism.  It outlines the essentials of Marxist historical materialism, political economy and philosophy ...

Backgrounding Marx is hard to do, especially when 2018 is the 200th anniversary of his birth and a huge number of global events are focusing on the great man. This is his usual “leader of the ...

Europe had never seen anything like the Revolutions of 1848. Beginning in January of that year, a wave of uprisings (nearly 50 in all) convulsed the continent, creating instability from Paris to ...

FRIEDRICH EXCELS—Gustav Mayer— Knopf ($3.50). The two famed dead men of whom present-day Germany is least proud are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Though in Naziland their names are a byword and a ...

Marx, Engels and Luxemburg were all keen to return to the egalitarian relations of primitive communism, at a higher level. But how does the egalitarianism of early human societies connect up with ...

The theory of modern socialism arose in the 1840s under the impulse of two German thinkers, Marx and Engels, who were not providential geniuses, but the interpreters of the socialism that then ...

We all know Karl Marx as the bushy beard, as “Das Kapital,” as the “ism,” as “The Communist Manifesto…” But, thanks to a new film, we’ll soon get to know Karl Marx the man, or, at least, a hilariously ...

Whatever epithets Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter use to assail President Obama and his agenda -- socialist, communist, Marxist -- it's a safe bet they won't call him an "Engelsist" or accuse him of ...

What a torch of reason ceased to burn, What a heart has ceased to beat! [1] On August 5 (new style), 1895, Frederick Engels died in London. After his friend Karl Marx (who died in 1883), Engels was ...

Reflecting on the contributions of Friedrich Engels on his bicentenary brings three issues to mind. The first issue is, how do we read his writings today? A lot of his writings were polemics against ...

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