Engels’ Later Works Online

Engels’ later works were very important in the development of Marxism. Engels’ presentation of Marxism in Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science (1878) and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) was profoundly influential in shaping the myth of Marx and a version of his economics to later communists, especially in the Soviet Union (Sperber 2014: 550; Hunt 2009: 300).

Now some scholars have argued that Engels reworked Marx’s thought, and even that there were actually significant differences between Engels’ version of communism and that of Marx, such as in Norman Levine’s The Tragic Deception: Marx contra Engels (1975) (Hunt 2009: 301). To some extent some of these arguments are made by Marxists who want to whitewash Marx and exonerate him from the horrors of communism, but there seems to be some truth to the view that it was Engels who popularised Marx’s work in the 1880s (Hunt 2009: 282). Yet, at the same time, Marx seems to have fully endorsed the Anti-Dühring (1878) so that it accurately represented his mature thought (Hunt 2009: 301–302).

These important works of Engels are online as follows:

(1) The Housing Question (1872; 2nd edn. 1887):

Engels, The Housing Question, 1872
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/housing-question/

(2) Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science (1878)
This work is often known simply as the Anti-Dühring and was first published in German serialised in a periodical. Three German editions appeared in 1878, 1886 and 1894. The first English translation appeared in 1907:

Engels, Friedrich. Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science. (trans. Emile Burns from 1894 edn.). International Publishers, New York.
https://archive.org/details/antidhringherr00enge

Engels, Friedrich. 1947. Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science (trans. Emile Burns from 1894 edn.). Progress Publishers.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/

(3) Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880):
This was first published in France in 1880 as an extract from Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science. An English translation appeared in 1892:

Engels, Friedrich. 1910. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (trans. Edward Bibbins Aveling). C. H. Kerr, Chicago.
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_6avaAAAAMAAJ

Engels, Friedrich. 1914. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (trans. Edward Bibbins Aveling). C. H. Kerr, Chicago.
https://archive.org/details/socialismutopian00enge

Engels, Friedrich. 1970. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (trans. Edward Aveling in 1892). Progress Publishers.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/

(4) The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884):

Engels, Friedrich. 1909. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (trans. Ernest Untermann). C. H. Kerr & Company, Chicago.
https://archive.org/details/originoffamilypr00enge

Engels, Friedrich. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (trans. Alick West in 1942 but revised).
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hunt, Tristram. 2009. The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels. Allen Lane, London.

Levine, Norman. 1975. The Tragic Deception: Marx contra Engels. Clio Books, Oxford and Santa Barbara.

Sperber, Jonathan. 2014. Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life. Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York.