The Noam Chomsky Reading List
rss icon
facebook icon
twitter icon

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɛŋəls]; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German-English industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research. In 1848 he co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx's death Engels edited the second and third volumes. Additionally, Engels organized Marx's notes on the "Theories of Surplus Value" and this was later published as the "fourth volume" of Capital.**

Continue Reading »



Book Title Publisher Total References
The Marx-Engels ReaderW. W. Norton & Company5
The Civil War in France Dodo Press2

** The above description is from the Wikipedia article on Friedrich Engels, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0. A full list of contributors can be found here.