New Releases by Friedrich Engels

Frederick Engels'' classic work was first published in 1884. In it he sets out a materialist explanation for the oppression of women. He shows that women''s subjugation is inextricably bound up with the dissolution of the egalitarian ''primitive'' commune and the emergence of class society -- characterised by private property, the family and the state. Engels'' analysis gives the lie to any claims that women''s oppression is eternal, a function of their biology or the supposed natural order of things. In the earliest human societies, despite their material poverty, women were not oppressed -- oppression came only with class society. Likewise, only the overthrow of capitalism will lay the basis for women''s full and final emancipation. Today, women''s rights are under attack -- across the globe and on all fronts. In their various ways, neoliberal ideology, religious fundamentalism and crude genetic determinism all suggest that women''s second-class status is somehow natural, rather than being the product of a rotten social system. The struggle for women''s rights needs to be informed by a scientific analysis of how women became the oppressed sex. Pat Brewer provides an introduction to Engels'' pioneering study, updating it in the light of contemporary evidence. This is essential reading for feminists today.

How the emergence of class-divided society gave rise to repressive state bodies and family structures that protect the property of the ruling layers and enable them to pass along wealth and privilege. Engels discusses the consequences for working people of these class institutions -- from their original forms to those of modern times.

With selections from Parts Two and Three, together with Marx''s "Introduction to a Critique of Political Economy".

This Norton Critical Edition offers a complete historical and philosophical introduction to Marx''s Manifesto of the Communist Party.

Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Explore the revolutionary ideas that reshaped the course of history in "Manifesto of the Communist Party" by the visionary thinkers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. This groundbreaking manifesto lays the foundation for a world-changing ideology, examining the class struggles, inequality, and the call for a new social order that still resonate today.

A classic of Marxism, Anti-Dühring was highly recommended by Lenin as a ‘text book’ of scientific socialism. It was originally written as a polemic against Eugen Dühring, a German revisionist who challenged the basic ideas of Marxism by counterposing his own ‘scientific’ theories within the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Very reluctantly, Engels was forced to take up these ideas and in doing so explained in the clearest fashion the revolutionary theories of Marxism. The original title was Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science, but it became popularly known as Anti-Dühring. It was the first popular exposition of Marxist theory as a whole and the titles of the three parts – philosophy, political economy, socialism – are enough to indicate the broad scope of this famous work. Originally published in parts in the Leipzig Vorwärts, starting in 1877, and in book form in 1878, Anti- Dühring set out to demolish the ‘system creating’ claims of Dühring. Whilst Dühring himself is now a completely forgotten figure, this polemic has been a masterpiece of Marxist literature for more than 130 years and served to educate numerous generations in the fundamental ideas of scientific socialism.