Friedrich Engels Young Revolutionary

First published in 1976. The year 1970 saw the 150th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels who was Karl Marx's most intimate friend and collaborator. Today the disciples of Marx and Engels are numbered in millions and the way of life of great states is based upon their doctrines. An understanding of the career and work of Friedrich Engels is essential to an appreciation of the origin and development of the Marxist form of socialism in the nineteenth century. This is the first volume in a set of two.

The road to communism 1820-1844 - Marx and Engels, Barmen, 1821-38, Bremen, 1838-41, Berlin, 1841-2, London and Manchester, 1842-4, Paris, 1844; the condition of the working class in England in 1844 - the genesis of Engels's book, Engels on the English workers, Engels's book in Germany, Engels's book in England, the significance of Engels's book; the young revolutionary 1845-50 - the German ideology, 1845-7, the communist correspondence committee, 1846-8, the principles of communism and the communist manifesto, 1847-8, revolution and reaction, 1848-9, exile in London, 1849-50; the Manchester years 1850-1870 - the years of storm and stress, 1850-60, the cotton lord, 1860-70; friends in exile - Wilhelm Wolff, Georg Weerth, Carl Schorlemmer, Eduard Gumpert, Carl Siebel, English friends - Julian Harney, James Leach, Ernest Jones, Edward Jones, Samuel Moore, the philistines -Louis Borchardt, John Watts.

W.O. Henderson