Friedrich Engels
Engels was Marx's closest collaborator and intellectual partner, providing crucial empirical research on industrial capitalism as well as theoretical elaborations of historical materialism. The Condition of the Working Class in England is a foundational document of social history.
Works
- The Communist ManifestoRevolutionary manifesto arguing capitalism breeds class conflict and communism
- The Condition of the Working Class in EnglandSociological study documenting industrial working-class poverty and exploitation
- Anti-DühringPhilosophical critique of rival socialist theorist Dühring's materialist philosophy
- The Origin of the FamilyMarxist analysis of how kinship structures evolved from economic organization
- Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German PhilosophyExamination of Feuerbach's materialism and its relationship to Hegelian dialectics