The Class Struggles in France (e-Book)

The work here republished was Marx’s first attempt to explain a section of contemporary history by means of his materialist conception, on the basis of the given economic situation. In the Communist Manifesto, the theory was applied in broad outline to the whole of modern history; in the
This Introduction of Engels’s was subjected at the time to gross distortion by the opportunist leadership of the German Social democratic Party.

The Class Struggles in France
1848 to 1850
K. Marx
PROGRESS PUBLISHERS Moscow 1972
First printing 1952
Second revised edition 1960
Third printing 1965
Fourth printing 1968
Fifth printing 1972