The Life, Work and Legacy of Friedrich Engels: Emerging from Marx’s Shadow

389 Pages·2023·112.712 MB·English

by  Eberhard Illner, Hans A. Frambach, Norbert Koubek

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THE LIFE, WORK AND LEGACY OF

FRIEDRICH ENGELS
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THE LIFE, WORK AND LEGACY OF

FRIEDRICH ENGELS
EMERGING FROM MARX’S SHADOW
Edited by
Eberhard Illner, Hans A. Frambach and Norbert Koubek
Translated by
Joseph Swann and Mícheál Úa Séaghdha
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CONTENTS

List of Plates vii
List of Figures ix
List of Contributors xi
Preface xiv
Introduction 1
1 ‘My Immortal Works’: Friedrich Engels as Journalist and
Publicist – An Overview 7
Jürgen Herres
2 Engels on Marx: Biography as Politics 27
Wilfried Nippel
3 Friedrich Engels, Victor Adler and Austromarxism 43
Günther Chaloupek
4 Man and Machine: Conceptions of Technology in the Writings
of Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx and Ernst Kapp 63
Eberhard Illner
5 ‘The General’ as Admiral: Friedrich Engels and the Naval Warfare Debate 85
Kurt Möser
6 The ‘Promised Land’? Friedrich Engels, the United States and
the Future of Capitalism 101
James M. Brophy
7 The Transformation of the World: Friedrich Engels and
the Development of Productive Forces in the Second Half
of the Nineteenth Century 119
Werner Plumpe
8 The Revolutionizing of Labour: Friedrich Engels and the Changing
Face of Work in Manchester and London 137
Margrit Schulte Beerbühl
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Contents
9 The Economic Thought of His Age: Friedrich Engels and the
Tension between Creation and Destruction 165
Hans A. Frambach
10 ‘This Frederick! This Frederick! A Naughty Wicked Boy Was
He …’: Engels, Marx and the Critique of Political Economy 199
Heinz D. Kurz
11 Repairing Das Kapital?: Friedrich Engels and the Publication
of Das Kapital II and III 223
Regina Roth
12 Work and ‘The Company’: Historical and Current Trends 241
Norbert Koubek
13 Overview: Engels in His Time 249
Jürgen Kocka
14 Annex: Note on the Editorial History of Marx’s and Engels’ Writings 255
Notes 257
Bibliography 319
Index 337
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PLATES
1 Friedrich Engels, c. 1864
2 Adolph Menzel, Iron Rolling Mill, 1872/5
3 Francois Bonhemmé, Casting in Le Creusot, 1864
4 Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, Borsig’s Locomotive Assembly Hall, 1873
5 Carl Eduard Biermann, Borsig’s Engineering Works in Berlin, 1847
6 Carl Wilhelm Hübner, The Silesian Weavers, 1846
7 V. Poljakov, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels at Work on the Communist
Manifesto, 1961
8 Capital and Labour, 1843
9 Pyotr Beloussov, Lenin with Delegates to the Third Komsomol
Congress 1920, 1949
10 Viktor Adler (1852–1918), c. 1910
11 Joan Planella i Rodriguez, The Working Girl or The Weaver, 1882
12 Karl Marx, sketch of a simple-acting atmospheric steam engine after
Thomas Newcomen, c. 1851
13 Charles Babbage, c. 1850
14 Jean Veber (1864–1928), Dynamis
15 Edward Moran, The Commerce of Nations Rendering Homage to Liberty, 1875
16 C. Parsons, City of New York, 1856
17 National Cotton Mule Spinners Association of America
18 Robert Köhler, The Strike, 1886
19 Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, Railway Bridge over the Rhine at
Ehrenbreitstein, 1875
20 Francois Bonhommé, Forging of the Elbow Shaft of a 60 hp Frigate
at the Indret Works, 1865
21 Ludwig Dettman, Golden Sunday, 1893
22 Augustus Edwin Mulready, Uncared For, 1871
23 Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, Wheel Production at Borsig’s Locomotive
Factory, 1873
24 George Cruikshank, The Tax on Property
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Plates
25 Pyramide a Renverser, c. 1900
26 David Ricardo, 1839
27 Thomas Malthus, 1833
28 Justus von Liebig, 1856
29 Heinrich Kley, The Krupp Devils, 1914
30 Isaak Israilovich Brodsky, Lenin in Smolny, 1930
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FIGURES
1.1 Friedrich Engels, ‘My Immortal Works’, 1892 8
1.2 Draft of the Manifesto of the Communist Party 13
1.3 Friedrich Engels’ membership card of the International Working Men’s
Association 23
2.1 World History: The Communists, 1848 28
2.2 David Levi Elkan, Karl Marx as Prometheus, 1843 31
2.3 Karl Marx (1818–1883), 1875 33
2.4 Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (1814–1876), c. 1863 35
4.1 Karl Marx, 1861 69
4.2 Andrew Ure 71
4.3 Ernst Kapp 76
4.4 Franz Reuleaux, 1879 80
5.1 Sailors of HMS Eclipse 86
5.2 HMS Warrior 88
5.3 USS Monitor in James River, Virginia, 1862 92
5.4 The capture of CSS Atlanta 97
5.5 Types of armoured ships 99
6.1 Friedrich Engels in Brighton, 1877 102
6.2 Corliss Steam Engine at the Philadelphia World’s Fair, 1876 112
8.1 George Cruikshank, The British Bee Hive, 1840 (reprint 1867) 155
8.2 London: A Pilgrimage, 1872 156
9.1 Friedrich List, 1845 168
9.2 Das Zollvereinsblatt, 1843 172
9.3 Carl Menger 176
9.4 Robert Owen 185
9.5 Lorenz von Stein 188
9.6 Joseph Alois Schumpeter, c. 1920 191
10.1 Friedrich Engels, 1845 201
10.2 Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1828 207