Frederick Engels
German communist and close collaborator with Karl Marx on the foundations of communist theory.
Prefaces to the Communist Manifesto
Prefaces to different editions of the Communist Manifesto.
The 1872 German Edition
The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels
The Manifesto of the Communist Party Communist Manifesto was commissioned by the Communist League and published in 1848, and remains one of the world's most influential political tracts.
While we do not agree with all of it we reproduce it for reference, and readers should bear in mind that it was commissioned propaganda for the League.
Introduction
Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
"A spectre is haunting Europe..." Marx and Engels' hugely influential pamphlet, briefly summarising key communist ideas and the policies of the Communist League.
Karl Marx and Frederick Engel's MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
The Demands of the Communist Party in Germany - Marx and Engels
The Demands of the Communist Party in Germany
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels [1]
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
1. The whole of Germany shall be declared a single and indivisible republic.
2. Every German over twenty-one years of age shall be able to vote and be elected, provided he has no criminal record.
Karl Marx - For Poland
FOR POLAND
Speeches by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as reported by Friedrich Engels. 24 March, 1875
Marx and Engels - Heroes of the Exile
HEROES OF THE EXILE
KARL MARX and FREDERICK ENGELS
Written between May and June 1852. First published in 1930 by Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in Vol. 5 of the Marx-Engels Archive. This edition was in Russian translation; the first edition of the German original had to wait for the German Werke Vol. 8, of 1960.
Not often one can use a word like hilarious with Karl and Fred (though Fred was usually a much more lively and rapid writer), but Heroes of the Exile can be very funny. Wasn't published in his lifetime, though he intended it to be... (that is, it wasn't an "unfinished work" in the sense the Economic and Philsophical Manuscripts were, say). Written in 1852.
On the History of the Communist League, 1836-1852 - Engels
London, October 8th 1885
Bruno Bauer and Early Christianity - Engels
published May 4-11, 1882 in Sozialdemokrat
In Berlin, on April 13, a man died who once played a role as a philosopher and a theologian, but was hardly heard of for years, only attracting the attention of the public from time to time as a "literary eccentric". Official theologians, including Renan, wrote him off and, therefore, maintained a silence of death about him. And yet he was worth more than them all and did more than all of them in a question which interests us Socialists, too: the question of the historical origin of Christianity.
On the History of Early Christianity - Engels
From Die Neue Zeit Vol. 1, 1894-95, pp. 4-13 and 36-43 ONLINE VERSION: Translated by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, USSR, 1957 from the newspaper copy. Transcribed for the Internet by director@marx.org.
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1891 Introduction - Engels
The 1891 Introduction to The Civil War in France, written by Frederick Engels on the 20th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
I did not anticipate that I would be asked to prepare a new edition of the Address of the General Council of the International on The Civil War in France, and to write an introduction to it. Therefore I can only touch briefly here on the most important points.
