Friedrich Engels

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The socialist movement cannot be gagged. On the contrary, the antisocialist law...will complete the revolutionary education of the German workers.
—"Can Europe Disarm," Friedrich Engels, 1893

Which of Friedrich Engels's Works were Burned? 

All works published before May 1933

Who was Friedrich Engels?

Philosopher and political economist Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was born in Barmen, Germany. The oldest son of an industrialist, Engels worked for a time in his father's factory in Manchester, England. There he witnessed the poverty of urban workers, later describing their plight in his 1845 work The Condition of the Working Class in England. In 1844, he had begun writing for a radical paper edited by Karl Marx.

Friedrich Engels became a frequent co-author with Marx of first socialist and then Communist books, including Principles of Communism (1847). He had to change his country of residence repeatedly to evade expulsion after publishing tracts denouncing the exploitation of workers and farmers throughout Europe in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. The works of Communist writers and philosophers ranked high on the list of the books to be burned. Engels' works were targeted immediately by the instigators of book burnings in Nazi Germany.