Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4

Author: Compiled by the Translation and Compilation Bureau of the Works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
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Publish Date: 1996-01-02
Features: This volume includes the works of Engels from 1884 to 1895, as well as "Dialectics of Nature," and letters between Marx and Engels from 1842 to 1895. During the period from 1884 to 1895, the process of free competitive capitalism evolving into monopolistic capitalism continued to develop, the struggles among capitalist countries intensified, the conditions of the working people deteriorated, and the working class was accumulating strength for future revolutionary struggles. Independent workers' party organizations, based on scientific socialism, were established and strengthened in most European countries, and the unity of the proletarian revolutionary forces was enhanced. By the late 1880s, a new international proletarian organization, the Second International, was founded.
The first work in this volume, Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State," systematically and scientifically elaborates on the early stages of human history, discussing the origin and development of the family, the emergence of private property and classes, and the origin and class nature of the state.