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Friedrich Engels' treatise on family economics and its connection
with human history and development is published here in full.
Engels examines the primitive tribal societies of the Native
Americans, where matriarchal arrangements were relatively
commonplace. He proposes that the effects that monogamy and the
increasing levels of private property decreased the influence of
women in family life and thus the wider society; a process which
Engels believed had advanced over thousands of years of advancing
human civilization. Engels argues that women were able to bond and
work together on a principle of sisterhood; he argues that this
occurrence is a form of primitive communism. In the modern day,
Engels' arguments in favor of matrilineal heritage in early human
societies are generally disregarded. However, anthropologists such
as Christopher Knight believe there is merit in Engels' claims, and
criticize the prevailing views.
Ironically, The Communist Manifesto, first published in 1848 for
the Communist League, had little influence in its own day. Only
after Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' other writings had made their
views on socialism widely known did it become a standard text. For
nearly century it was one of the most widely read - some would
argue misread - texts in the world. Manifested in vivid prose, the
Manifesto continues to irk the capitalist world, lingering as an
eerie specter even after the collapse of those governments, which
claimed to be enacting its principles. Certainly, the aim here is
not create converts. Instead it is to help readers probe the
writing with its distinct point of view, so that we might
understand the political and historical significance of the text
while still maintaining a stance that allows us to think critically
about the subject and form our own opinions.
The classic "The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844"
is a detailed description and analysis of the appalling conditions
of the working class in Britain during Engels' stay in Manchester
and Salford. The work also contains seminal thoughts on the state
of socialism and its development.
The definitive introduction to history’s most influential and
controversial political document, updated for a new generation of
readers. Since it was first written in 1848, The Communist
Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other
modern text. All across the world—in countless places and
idioms—it has been debated, shared, brandished, invoked, banned,
burned, and even declared “dead.” But in an era of escalating
political, economic, health, and environmental crises, Marx and
Engels’ fierce indictment of capitalism is more relevant than
ever, and their Manifesto remains required reading from the
classroom to the picket line. Scholar Phil Gasper draws on his
decades of teaching and organizing experience to produce a
beautifully organized edition of the Manifesto that brings the text
to life. By fully annotating the Manifesto with clear historical
references and explication, a glossary, and including additional
related texts, Gasper provides an accessible and comprehensive
reference edition suited to first-time readers and dedicated
partisans alike.
The second edition of this strong collection brings together
classical statements on social stratification with current and
original scholarship, providing a foundation for theoretical debate
on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality. Designed for
students in courses on social stratification, inequality, and
social theory, this new edition includes a revised and updated
editor's introduction and conclusion, along with five new chapters
on race and gender from distinguished scholars in the field.
The second edition of this strong collection brings together
classical statements on social stratification with current and
original scholarship, providing a foundation for theoretical debate
on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality. Designed for
students in courses on social stratification, inequality, and
social theory, this new edition includes a revised and updated
editor's introduction and conclusion, along with five new chapters
on race and gender from distinguished scholars in the field.
The famous lectures to workers on the economic laws that determine
wages and profits.
This book contains four classic writings of Marxism by Marx,
Engels, Lenin and Trotsky. There is no better explanation of
Marxism than in the words of its foremost thinkers. This volume
includes: The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. Socialism:
Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels. The State and
Revolution by V. I. Lenin. The Transitional Programme by Leon
Trotsky.
"At the request of my friend, Paul Lafargue, ... I arranged three
chapters of this book (Anti-Duhring) as a pamphlet, which he
translated and published in 1880, under the title: Socialisme
utopique et Socialisme scientifique. From this French text, a
Polish and a Spanish edition were prepared. In 1883, our German
friends brought out the pamphlet in the original language. Italian,
Russian, Danish, Dutch, and Roumanian transla-tions, based upon the
German text, have since been published. Thus, the present English
edition, this little book circulates in 10 languages. I am not
aware that any other Socialist work, not even our Communist
Manifesto of 1848, or Marx's Capital, has been so often translated.
In Germany, it has had four editions of about 20,000 cop-ies in
all." Frederick Engels: from the Preface to the 1892 English
Edition]
The present work carries us back to a period which, although
chronologically no more than a generation or so behind us, has
become as foreign to the present generation in Germany as if it
were already a full hundred years old. Yet it was the period of
Germany's preparation for the Revolution of 1848; and all that has
happened in our country since then has been merely a continuation
of 1848, merely the execution of the last will and testament of the
revolution. Just as in France in the eighteenth century, so in
Germany in the nineteenth, a philosophical revolution ushered in
the political collapse. But with what a difference The French were
in open combat with all official science, with the church and often
also the state; their writings were printed beyond the frontier, in
Holland or England, while they themselves were often on the point
of landing in the Bastille. But the Germans were professors,
state-appointed instructors of youth; their writings were
recognized textbooks, and the system rounding off the whole
development---the Hegelian system---was even raised, in some
degree, to the rank of a royal Prussian philosophy of state Was it
possible that a revolution could hide behind these professors,
behind their pedantically obscure phrases, their ponderous,
wearisome sentences? Were not the liberals, the very people who
then passed as the representatives of the revolution, the bitterest
opponents of this brain-befuddling philosophy? But what neither
governments nor liberals saw was seen by at least one man as early
as 1833, and indeed by a man called Heinrich Heine.
Using the authorized English translation, edited and annotated by
Engels, this edition features an extensive and provocative
introduction by historian Martin Malia.
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