Friedrich Engels was a German socialist instrumental to the development of Marxism.

11.28.2022

• Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels on Why Capitalists Are Guilty of Social Murder

In 1845, Friedrich Engels wrote a scathing condemnation of English capitalism, The Condition of the Working Class in England. In it, he accused the bosses of carrying out “social murder” against workers and the poor.

03.14.2022

• Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels’s Eulogy to Karl Marx

Karl Marx died on this day in 1883. At his funeral, Marx's lifelong friend and comrade Friedrich Engels delivered a eulogy predicting Marx's work would endure through the ages. We reprint Engels's speech here in full.