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Marx & Engels Collected Works: Volume 26

Volume 26

Frederick Engels
1882-89


1882

August

 

Manuscripts on Early German History

On the Early History of the Germans6

Caesar and Tacitus

6

The First Battles Against Rome

19

Progress Until the Migration Period

33

Note: The German Peoples

44
The Frankish Period58

The Radical Transformation of the Relations of Landownership under the Merovingians and Carolingians

58

The District and Army Structure

71

Note: The Franconian Dialect

81

1883

May
Georg Weerth108
June
The Book of Revelation 112
Preface to the 1883 German Edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party 118

1884

March
Marx and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-49)120
April-May
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. In the Light of the Researches by Lewis H. Morgan129
Preface to the First Edition131

I. Prehistoric Stages of Culture

134

1. Savagery

134

2. Barbarism

136

II. The Family

139

III. The Iroquois Gens

190

IV. The Grecian Gens

204

V. The Emergence of the Athenian State

213

VI. The Gens and the State in Rome

222

VII. The Gens Among the Celts and Germans

232

VIII. The Formation of the State Among the Germans

245

IX. Barbarism and Civilisation

256
June
Introductory Note to the Separate 1884 Edition of Marx's Wage Labour and Capital277
October
Marx and Rodbertus. Preface to the First German Edition of The Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx278

1885

January
Real Imperial Russian Privy Dynamiters 292
February
England in 1845 and in 1885295
Preface to the Third German Edition of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Marx302
July
Preface to the Pamphlet Karl Marx Before the Cologne Jury304
August
To the Editors of the Sererny Vestnik 311
October
On the History of the Communist League312
The Situation331
To the Editorial Committee of Le Socialiste 333
How Not to Translate Marx335
November
On the History of the Prussian Peasants. Introduction to Wilhelm Wolff's Pamphlet The Silesian Milliard341

1886

Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy353

I

357

II

365

III

374

IV

381
February
Appendix to the American Edition of The Condition of the Working Class in England399
March
On the Anniversary of the Paris Commune 406
April
A Statement to the Editorial Board of the New Yorker Volkszeitung408
May
On the Strike at a Glass-Works in Lyons409
October
The Political Situation in Europe 410
December
Johann Philipp Becker418

1887

January
Preface to the Second Edition of The Housing Question424
The Labor Movement in America. Preface to the American Edition of The Condition of the Working Class in England434
February
Letter to the Organising Committee of the International Festival in Paris443
March
To the Federation of the Centre of the French Workers' Party445
December
Introduction to Sigismund Borkheim's Pamphlet, In Memory of the German Blood-and-Thunder Patriots. 1806-1807 446
The Role of Force in History453
Rough Draft of the Preface to The Role of Force in History511

1888

January
Preface to 1888 English Edition of Manifesto of the Communist Party512
February
Preface to the Pamphlet Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy519
April
Protection and Free Trade. Preface to the Pamphlet: Karl Marx, Speech on the Question of Free Trade521

1889

April
Letter to the Editors of The Labour Elector537
May
The Ruhr Miners' Strike of 1889539
August
Possibilist Credentials542
Apropos of the London Dockers' Strike545
September
The Abdication of the Bourgeoisie546

 

From the Preparatory Materials

1884

On the Association of the Future553
On the Peasant War554
On the Decline of Feudalism and the Emergence of National States556

1886

August
Chartist Agitation 566

1888

Plan of Chapter Four of the Pamphlet The Role of Force in History578
Plan of the Final Section of Chapter Four of the Pamphlet The Role of Force in History579
Notes on My Journey Through America and Canada581
Impressions of a Journey Round America 584

 

Appendices

1883

To the Editors of To-Day 589
From Hermann Lopatin's Letter to Maria Oshanina591

1885

The Insurrection of May 1849 594

1886

Lawyers' Socialism597

1887

To the Editors of the New Yorker Volkszeitung 617
Engels' Amendments to the Programme of the North of England Socialist Federation 619

1888

To the Editor of Justice 623
Interview Given by Frederick Engels to the New Yorker Volkszeitung626

 

Notes and Indexes

Notes 631
Name Index 699
Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature 730
Index of Periodicals 747
Subject Index 751
Glossary of Geographical Names 767

 

Illustrations

Map of German Settlement According to Engels' "On the Early History of the Germans" 51
Page 17 of Engels' manuscript "The Frankish Period" 69
Map of German Dialects According to Engels' "The Franconian Dialect" 94-95
Cover of the first edition of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 130-31
Title page of the fourth edition of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 257
Title page of Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy355
A page of the manuscript of The Role of Force in History 467
Title page of the English edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party513
Programme of the North of England Socialist Federation with Engels' amendments621