Europe had never seen anything like the Revolutions of 1848. Beginning in January of that year, a wave of uprisings (nearly 50 in all) convulsed the continent, creating instability from Paris to ...

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Whatever epithets Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter use to assail President Obama and his agenda -- socialist, communist, Marxist -- it's a safe bet they won't call him an "Engelsist" or accuse him of ...

Anyone who has taken an introductory course in political science knows that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848). But most of us know a lot more about one of those ...

Friedrich Engels has been un­deservedly “airbrushed from history,” says historian Tristram Hunt. Though his name is ritually invoked in any discussion of Marxism’s origins, the man and his pioneering ...

Karl Marx was a philosopher and revolutionary who, with Friedrich Engels, wrote "The Communist Manifesto," a pamphlet that provided a platform for the European socialist and communist parties during ...

It's entirely predictable, even inevitable, that public broadcasting would favor socialism in all its programming. But it's a little more surprising when it openly touts "The Communist Manifesto." ...