![]() ![]() He begins with an idea of what he imagines history to be. Leaving behind the older Engels, we then move back to the man who wrote the first draft of the book in the 1840s. Yet he remains somewhat defiant, somewhat proud that some of what he prophesied came about. There is also an acknowledgement that many of the complaints have been, if not invalided, ameliorated to some extent. In so doing, there is an element of reproof, no longer convinced that the full force of the predictions made were wholly warranted, given the evidence presented. So this preface is an old man looking back at his younger self. At the time the book was written, Friedrich was 24 years old and full of the zeal of youth. ![]() This edition, though, is prefaced by a much older Engels. It is a book of observations based on Engels own experience, backed up by secondary reports from the locations and the times concerned. The title of the book gives a clue as to its nature. Of the three works, this is by far the most extensive, though it falls significantly short of the length of Marx’s Das Kapital. ![]() These two are in fact in the same volume along with a third work ( Socialism: Scientific and Utopian) which I intend to review later. ![]() This is my first follow-up to having read The Communist Manifesto at the start of the year. ![]()
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