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Remarks on the Embarrassed Publishing History of Engels, Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England

In: 200 Years of Friedrich Engels

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  • Wilfried Nippel

    (Humboldt University)

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In 1845, Friedrich Engels published Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England. He suggested that his account owed much to his “own observations” during his stay in Manchester from December 1842 to August 1844. In fact, that played only a minor role in comparison to the use of written sources. In later decades, Engels was often asked to publish an updated version but reacted dilatorily. It was only the offer of an English translation to be published in the USA (1887) that motivated Engels to republish the old text and to deal with the period from 1845 to 1885 only in a preface. Thus, he could acknowledge the great economic and social progress in England and at the same time claim that England’s prosperity would dwindle since it could no longer dominate the world market; that would lead to a rebirth of socialism. Engels might have declared his 1845 book a pioneer work of materialist analysis, but he could not overcome his habit to correct old prognoses by making new ones.

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  • Wilfried Nippel, 2022. "Remarks on the Embarrassed Publishing History of Engels, Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England," The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences, in: Jürgen Georg Backhaus & Günther Chaloupek & Hans A. Frambach (ed.), 200 Years of Friedrich Engels, pages 107-120, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:euhchp:978-3-031-10115-1_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10115-1_8
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