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Introduction to the English Edition

1892

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Engels's late, substantive essay for English readers — the pamphlet's history from Anti-Dühring onward, "agnosticism" unmasked as shamefaced materialism, and a class history of England from the Reformation to 1892 explaining why the English bourgeoisie clung to religion while France shed its own — closing with the wager that the English proletariat will move at last.

How the pamphlet grew out of Anti-DühringHistorical materialism defined for a new audienceAgnosticism as "shamefaced materialism"Religion as the English middle class's instrument of ruleThe three great bourgeois battles: Reformation, English Civil War, French Revolution

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