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i THE LIFE, WORK AND LEGACY OF FRIEDRICH ENGELS ii iii THE LIFE, WORK AND LEGACY OF FRIEDRICH ENGELS EMERGING FROM MARX’S SHADOW Edited by Eberhard Illner, Hans A. Frambach and Norbert Koubek Translated by Joseph Swann and Mícheál Úa Séaghdha iv BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in English in Great Britain 2023 Copyright © Eberhard Illner, Hans A. Frambach and Norbert Koubek, 2023 Eberhard Illner, Hans A. Frambach and Norbert Koubek have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Editors of this work. Translated by Joseph Swann and Mícheál Úa Séaghdha The original edition was published in 2020 under the title Friedrich Engels. 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Ltd., Chennai, India To find out more about our authors and books visit www.blo omsb ury.com and sign up for our newsletters. v CONTENTS List of Plates vii List of Figures ix List of Contributors xi Preface xiv Introduction 1 1 ‘My Immortal Works’: Friedrich Engels as Journalist and Publicist – An Overview 7 Jürgen Herres 2 Engels on Marx: Biography as Politics 27 Wilfried Nippel 3 Friedrich Engels, Victor Adler and Austromarxism 43 Günther Chaloupek 4 Man and Machine: Conceptions of Technology in the Writings of Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx and Ernst Kapp 63 Eberhard Illner 5 ‘The General’ as Admiral: Friedrich Engels and the Naval Warfare Debate 85 Kurt Möser 6 The ‘Promised Land’? Friedrich Engels, the United States and the Future of Capitalism 101 James M. Brophy 7 The Transformation of the World: Friedrich Engels and the Development of Productive Forces in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 119 Werner Plumpe 8 The Revolutionizing of Labour: Friedrich Engels and the Changing Face of Work in Manchester and London 137 Margrit Schulte Beerbühl vi Contents 9 The Economic Thought of His Age: Friedrich Engels and the Tension between Creation and Destruction 165 Hans A. Frambach 10 ‘This Frederick! This Frederick! A Naughty Wicked Boy Was He …’: Engels, Marx and the Critique of Political Economy 199 Heinz D. Kurz 11 Repairing Das Kapital?: Friedrich Engels and the Publication of Das Kapital II and III 223 Regina Roth 12 Work and ‘The Company’: Historical and Current Trends 241 Norbert Koubek 13 Overview: Engels in His Time 249 Jürgen Kocka 14 Annex: Note on the Editorial History of Marx’s and Engels’ Writings 255 Notes 257 Bibliography 319 Index 337 vi vii PLATES 1 Friedrich Engels, c. 1864 2 Adolph Menzel, Iron Rolling Mill, 1872/5 3 Francois Bonhemmé, Casting in Le Creusot, 1864 4 Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, Borsig’s Locomotive Assembly Hall, 1873 5 Carl Eduard Biermann, Borsig’s Engineering Works in Berlin, 1847 6 Carl Wilhelm Hübner, The Silesian Weavers, 1846 7 V. Poljakov, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels at Work on the Communist Manifesto, 1961 8 Capital and Labour, 1843 9 Pyotr Beloussov, Lenin with Delegates to the Third Komsomol Congress 1920, 1949 10 Viktor Adler (1852–1918), c. 1910 11 Joan Planella i Rodriguez, The Working Girl or The Weaver, 1882 12 Karl Marx, sketch of a simple-acting atmospheric steam engine after Thomas Newcomen, c. 1851 13 Charles Babbage, c. 1850 14 Jean Veber (1864–1928), Dynamis 15 Edward Moran, The Commerce of Nations Rendering Homage to Liberty, 1875 16 C. Parsons, City of New York, 1856 17 National Cotton Mule Spinners Association of America 18 Robert Köhler, The Strike, 1886 19 Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, Railway Bridge over the Rhine at Ehrenbreitstein, 1875 20 Francois Bonhommé, Forging of the Elbow Shaft of a 60 hp Frigate at the Indret Works, 1865 21 Ludwig Dettman, Golden Sunday, 1893 22 Augustus Edwin Mulready, Uncared For, 1871 23 Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, Wheel Production at Borsig’s Locomotive Factory, 1873 24 George Cruikshank, The Tax on Property viii Plates 25 Pyramide a Renverser, c. 1900 26 David Ricardo, 1839 27 Thomas Malthus, 1833 28 Justus von Liebig, 1856 29 Heinrich Kley, The Krupp Devils, 1914 30 Isaak Israilovich Brodsky, Lenin in Smolny, 1930 viii ix FIGURES 1.1 Friedrich Engels, ‘My Immortal Works’, 1892 8 1.2 Draft of the Manifesto of the Communist Party 13 1.3 Friedrich Engels’ membership card of the International Working Men’s Association 23 2.1 World History: The Communists, 1848 28 2.2 David Levi Elkan, Karl Marx as Prometheus, 1843 31 2.3 Karl Marx (1818–1883), 1875 33 2.4 Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (1814–1876), c. 1863 35 4.1 Karl Marx, 1861 69 4.2 Andrew Ure 71 4.3 Ernst Kapp 76 4.4 Franz Reuleaux, 1879 80 5.1 Sailors of HMS Eclipse 86 5.2 HMS Warrior 88 5.3 USS Monitor in James River, Virginia, 1862 92 5.4 The capture of CSS Atlanta 97 5.5 Types of armoured ships 99 6.1 Friedrich Engels in Brighton, 1877 102 6.2 Corliss Steam Engine at the Philadelphia World’s Fair, 1876 112 8.1 George Cruikshank, The British Bee Hive, 1840 (reprint 1867) 155 8.2 London: A Pilgrimage, 1872 156 9.1 Friedrich List, 1845 168 9.2 Das Zollvereinsblatt, 1843 172 9.3 Carl Menger 176 9.4 Robert Owen 185 9.5 Lorenz von Stein 188 9.6 Joseph Alois Schumpeter, c. 1920 191 10.1 Friedrich Engels, 1845 201 10.2 Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1828 207