The Life and Work of Friedrich Engels

The Life and Work of Friedrich Engels (1920)
by Zelda Kahan

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The Life and Work of
Friedrich Engels

By ZELDA KAHAN-COATES

In Commemoration of the Engels
Centenary
1820—November 28—1920

LONDON
The Communist Party
of Great Britain
21a Maiden Lane, W.C.2
1920

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THE LIFE & WORK
of
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

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THE LIFE AND WORK
OF FRIEDRICH ENGELS

by
ZELDA KAHAN-COATES

LONDON:

The COMMUNIST PARTY of GREAT BRITAIN
21a Maiden Lane, W.C.

1920

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Contents

Early Years		7
First Visit to Manchester		8
Meeting and Complete Agreement with Marx		9
The Condition of the Working Classes in England in 1844		10
Home Life and Early Communist Activities		14
The Communist Manifesto		16
Bourgeois and Proletarian Democracy		17
Constitutional Risings in Germany		21
Fighting Illusions of the Democratic Refugees		22
Back to Manchester		23
Engels' Devotion to Marx		15
Temporary Estrangement from Marx		28
An End to "Sweet Commerce"		29
In London Again		30
Anti-Dühring or The Scientific Basis of Socialism		31
After Split in First International and Death of Marx		34
"The Origin of the Family"		36
The Position of Women in Society		38
The State		41
The Nature of the Proletarian Transition State		44
Last Years		46
Failure of Second International		47
Engels—The Man		48

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