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