Friedrich Engels
Список книг автора Friedrich EngelsDer deutsche Bauernkrieg
Für Friedrich Engels war der Bauernkrieg der «großartigste Revolutionsversuch des deutschen Volkes» mit dem Thüringer Aufstand als Höhepunkt.
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Vorbemerkung zur Ausgabe 1870 und 1875 Einleitung I. Die ökonomische Lage und der soziale Schichtenbau Deutschlands II. Die großen oppositionellen Gruppierungen und ihre Ideologien – Luther und Münzer III. Vorläufer des großen Bauernkriegs zwischen 1476 und 1517 IV. Der Adelsaufstand V. Der schwäbisch-fränkische Bauernkrieg VI. Der thüringische, elsässische und östreichische Bauernkrieg VII. Die Folgen des Bauernkriegs Fußnoten
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) is ranked alongside Karl Marx as one of the founders and developers of the Communist movement. Throughout his life he was active in various areas of writing, social science, political theory, and philosophy, authoring and co-authoring very significant works such as «The Communist Manifesto» with Marx. His own 1845 work, «The Condition of the Working-Class in England», was Engel's first work, written after he spent two years in Manchester working as a businessman by day and a revolutionary activist by night. The book provides a graphic illustration of the Industrial Revolution and its negative effects on mill and factory laborers. Engels drew material from his own observations and detailed reports that reflected the disease and mortality rates of workers in rural areas and large cities. This classic Victorian social criticism made Engels extremely popular in his day, and has cemented a place for him in literary, philosophical, and political history.
The Communist Manifesto
The second biggest-selling book ever published. In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word “capitalism” itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives. But with the outbreak of financial crisis and global recession in the twenty-first century, capitalism is once again up for discussion. The status quo can no longer be taken for granted. As Eric Hobsbawm argues in his acute and elegant introduction to this modern edition, in such times The Communist Manifesto emerges as a work of great prescience and power despite being written over a century and a half ago. He highlights Marx and Engels’s enduring insights into the capitalist system: its devastating impact on all aspects of human existence; its susceptibility to enormous convulsions and crises; and its fundamental weakness.
