Keeping the word “socialist” out of the conversation is proving impossible.
With Marx, Engels "taught the working class to know itself and be conscious of itself."
Engels saw reality for what it was and then applied dialectical materialism to chart a way forward.
Frederick Engels' "The Revolutionary Act: Military Insurrection or Political and Economic Action?," his last introduction to Marx's Class Struggles in France: 1848 to 1850, written in 1895 just before...
On this bicentenary of Engels' birth, we note his contributions to Marxist theory.