Marx and Engels basic writings from the 1840s and the 1890s examine the development of religious thought, from primitive human society to the modern-day exploitation of the working classes. A thought-provoking introduction to Marxist theory and the elaboration of dialectical materialism, the essays and letters explore the role of religion in the structure of social relations and examine the conflict between science and religion.
The reader will find foundational excerpts from works such as The Communist Manifesto and The German Ideology; Engels’ Introduction to Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, his Peasant War in Germany, Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of Classical German Philosophy, and the hard-to-obtain Dialectics of Nature.
Contents In Chronological Order
Marx, Foreword to Thesis: The difference between the natural philosophy of Democritus and the natural philosophy of Epicurus
Marx, the leading article of No. 179. of Kölnische Zeitung
Marx, contribution to the critique of Hegel’s philosophy of right. Introduction
Marx & Engels, The Holy Family, or critique of critical criticism.
Marx, Theses on Feuerbach
Marx & Engels, German Ideology
Marx, The Communism of the Paper Rheinischer Beobachter
Marx & Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party
Marx & Engels, Review of G. Fr. Daumer’s the religion of the new age
Engels, The Peasant War in Germany
Letters of Engels and Marx, 1853
Marx, Anti-Church Movement—Demonstration in Hyde Park
Marx, Capital, Book I (extracts)
Engels, Emigrant Literature
Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme
Engels, Anti-Dühring
Engels, Dialectics of Nature (extracts)
Engels, Bruno Bauer and Early Christianity
Engels, The Book of Revelation
Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of Classical German Philosophy
Engels, Juristic Socialism
Engels Letters 1. to Bloch, September 21-22, 1890 & to C. Schmidt, October 27, 1890
Engels, Introduction to the English Edition of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Engels, On the History of Early Christianity
