Engels - A Very Short Introduction.pdf

While there are many books on Marx and Marxism there are few
books on Engels, and even fewer that take him seriously as a
thinker. In this one I have attempted a close study of Engels’s ideas.
To a large extent I have allowed him to speak for himself, since his
own words are suitably vivid. It has been my object to interest the
reader in Engels’s thought and its implications for contemporary
social science and politics.
I am grateful to the University of Liverpool for granting me study
leave to begin this book, and I am indebted to those who supported
my application, as well as to my students there. I should like to
thank Catherine Payne and Mary Woods for their careful and
critical attention to my typescript, and Larry Wilde, Henry Hardy,
Keith Thomas and an anonymous adviser for their very helpful
suggestions.
I should like to dedicate this book to David McLellan.
Bristol TERRELL CARVER
September 1980