Karl Marx was born 205 years ago today, on May 05, 1818. Friedrich Engels published this biography of Marx in 1869, while Marx was still alive [1]. In 1868, Engels submitted an earlier version to Die Gartenlaube, a magazine focusing on teaching history in accessible...
Today the world is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels, renowned across the globe as one of the greatest revolutionaries and theorists to ever live. Engels, who along with Karl Marx founded the modern communist movement, was born on...
Editor's Note: This article accompanies our study guide for Engels' "The Housing Question." Introduction Frederick Engels is best known for his theoretical and political work he undertook alongside his lifelong comrade, Karl Marx. Yet Engels made other important...
Friedrich Engels published "The Housing Question" first in 1872. It is a collection of three articles originally published in Der Volksstaat (The People's State), which was the main newspaper of the German Social Democratic Workers Party. Engels was responding to a...