Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850

This work, Marx's analysis of events in France, a part of the European revolutionary upsurge of the late 1840's, was written while the events analyzed were still taking place. It is, as Frederick Engels says, "Marx's first attempt, with the aid of his materialist concept, to explain a section of contemporary history from the given economic situation." The work has long been considered to be a classic in historical materialism as applied to current events, having withstood the test of later and fuller analyses. This edition includes in full Engels' Preface of 1895, in which he assessed Socialist strategy and tactics for the previous fifty years.