Frederick Engels
German communist and close collaborator with Karl Marx on the foundations of communist theory.
Strategies and Tactics of the Class Struggle
September 17-18 1879 A Private Circulation Letter from Marx and Engels (First drafted by Engels) to Germany's Social-Democratic leadership -- Bebel, Liebknecht, Fritzsche, Geiser, Hasenclever, Bracke. This was in response to an August 1879 article written by Karl Hochberg, Eduard Bernstein, and Carl August Schramm, entitled "Retrospects on the Socialist Movement in Germany".
Engels on Marx's Death
A collection of articles and statements by Frederick Engels regarding the death of Karl Marx.
Marx was was laid to rest in Highgate Cemetery on Saturday, March 17 1883, in the same grave as his wife, Jenny, buried 15 months earlier.
Trade Unions
Written: May 20, 1881 Published: No. 4, May 28, 1881, as a leading article Reproduced from the newspaper Transcribed: director@marx.org, Labor Day 1996
Part I
Engels' Articles for Labour Standard
As the 1870s drew to a close, the temporary peace between the English classes grew shakey. The Great Depression of the 1870s swept the western world and was, as always, particularly rough on the proletariat. The capitalist cycle downturn set in motion familiar attacks by the capitalist class against what reformist compromises within the capitalist system existed.
Interview with Friedrich Engels in Le Figaro, May 1893
... Having learnt the purpose of my visit, Engels told me the following:
Interview with Friedrich Engels in L'Eclair, April 1892
Russian Diplomacy Cause of the Russian Famine Economic and Military Situation A Strong France The Question of Alsace-Lorraine
... Mr. Engels, an enemy of the interview, was kind enough to make an exception for us and let us have his impressions.
"What do you think," we asked him, "of the recent outrages in Paris committed by the anarchists?"
Interview with Friedrich Engels in The Daily Chronicle, June 1893
... I found Herr Engels at his house in Regent's Park Road, jubilant, of course, over the result of the elections to the German Reichstag.
The Housing Question
During the 1870s, a major polemical debate unfolded in Germany's worker/democratic press on the shortage of housing available to workers in major industrial centres. The influx and increase of the proletariat created a housing crisis.
On June 26 1872, Engels contributed the first of a series of articles to the Volksstaat, entitled "The Housing Question." The last appeared on February 22 1873. Engels' central point was that the revolutionary class policy of the proletariat cannot be replaced by a policy of reforms, because "it is not that the solution of the housing question simultaneously solves the social question, but that only by the solution of the social question, that is, by the abolition of the capitalist mode of production, is the solution of the housing question made possible."
The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism
"When I visited Marx in Paris in the summer of 1844, our complete agreement in all theoretical fields became evident and our joint work dates from that time."
Frederick Engels
During Engels' short stay in Paris in 1844, Marx suggested the two of them should write a critique of the rage of their day, the Young Hegelians. In the doing was born the first joint writing project between the two men -- and a life-long association that would change the world.
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
First published in 1886 in Die Neue Zeit. It was intended to rebut a resurgence of neo-Idealism in German ruling class circles. It was reprinted in Stuttgart two years later, with some changes made by Engels.
Engels considered this something of a summation or closure of the post-Hegelian criticism Marx and he had initiated in The German Ideology 43 years before -- which work was never published in their lifetimes.
