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Frederick Engels
Frederick Engels (1820–1895) was the founding leader, along with Karl Marx, of the modern revolutionary workers movement. Together with Marx he drafted the Communist Manifesto, the program of that movement. A founder of the Communist League (1848–52), Engels played a prominent role in the 1848–49 revolution in Germany. He was,...
Frederick Engels (1820–1895) was the founding leader, along with Karl Marx, of the modern revolutionary workers movement. Together with Marx he drafted the Communist Manifesto, the program of that movement. A founder of the Communist League (1848–52), Engels played a prominent role in the 1848–49 revolution in Germany. He was, with Marx, a founding leader of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (1864–76), often called the First International. After the death of Marx in 1883, Engels led the revolutionary wing of the Second International, founded in 1880, until his own death in 1895. Writings by Engels published and distributed by Pathfinder include:
Labor, Nature, and the Dawn of History (coauthor, 2021)
Communist Manifesto (coauthor, 2008)
Collected Works of Marx and Engels (1975–2004)
"The Peasant Question in France and Germany" in Marxism and the Working Farmer (1979) Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1972)
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1972)