Marx and Engels Collected Works, Volume 4

Author: Central Committee of the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Society of the Communist Party of China
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Publish Date: 1997-05-01
Features: This volume selects works of Engels from 1884 to 1895, "Dialectics of Nature," as well as letters from Marx and Engels from 1842 to 1895. During the period of 1884 to 1895, the process of free competitive capitalism transitioning to monopoly capitalism continued to develop, the struggle among capitalist countries intensified, the conditions of the working people deteriorated, and the revolutionary forces of the proletariat were accumulating strength. Independent working-class parties based on scientific socialism were established and consolidated in most European countries, the unity of the revolutionary forces of the proletariat was strengthened, and by the late 1880s, a new international organization of the working class was formed, the Second International.