Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough

According to Nimtz, no two people contributed more to the struggle for democracy in the 19th century than Karl Marx & Frederick Engels. Presenting the 1st major study of the two thinkers in the past 20 years & the 1st since the collapse of the Soviet Union, this book challenges many widely held views about their democratic credentials & their attitudes & policies on the peasantry, the importance of national self-determination, the struggle for women’s equality, their so-called Eurocentric bias, political & party organizing, & the possibility for socialist revolution in an overwhelmingly peasant & underdeveloped country like late-19th-century Russia.