The Housing Question
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: worn boards with minor marks and specks; internally sound for age, clean text.
Few texts cut to the heart of capitalism's most persistent failure — the inability to house its own workers — with the surgical precision of Frederick Engels' The Housing Question. Originally published as a series of articles in 1872, this foundational Marxist tract dissects the acute housing crisis of industrialised Europe, arguing that the misery of the urban proletariat is not an accident of circumstance but a structural inevitability of bourgeois society. Engels targets the reformist proposals of his day, particularly those of the Proudhonist school, demolishing their logic with characteristic rigour and redirecting the debate toward the only solution he deems credible: the revolutionary transformation of the entire social order. Part polemic, part political economy, and part urban theory, this work stands as a remarkably prescient contribution to socialist thought, anticipating debates about gentrification, property ownership, and working-class displacement that resonate as powerfully today as they did in the nineteenth century. Engels' prose is combative and unsparing, wielding irony and dialectical argument in equal measure to expose the contradictions at the core of capitalist urban planning. Published under the banner of the Marxist-Leninist Library — a series designed to disseminate foundational communist texts throughout the Soviet world — this edition carries its own historical weight as an artefact of ideological production. Will the city ever truly belong to those who build it?
Author: Frederick Engels
Format: Hardback
Published: 1935, Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R.
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: worn boards with minor marks and specks; internally sound for age, clean text.
Few texts cut to the heart of capitalism's most persistent failure — the inability to house its own workers — with the surgical precision of Frederick Engels' The Housing Question. Originally published as a series of articles in 1872, this foundational Marxist tract dissects the acute housing crisis of industrialised Europe, arguing that the misery of the urban proletariat is not an accident of circumstance but a structural inevitability of bourgeois society. Engels targets the reformist proposals of his day, particularly those of the Proudhonist school, demolishing their logic with characteristic rigour and redirecting the debate toward the only solution he deems credible: the revolutionary transformation of the entire social order. Part polemic, part political economy, and part urban theory, this work stands as a remarkably prescient contribution to socialist thought, anticipating debates about gentrification, property ownership, and working-class displacement that resonate as powerfully today as they did in the nineteenth century. Engels' prose is combative and unsparing, wielding irony and dialectical argument in equal measure to expose the contradictions at the core of capitalist urban planning. Published under the banner of the Marxist-Leninist Library — a series designed to disseminate foundational communist texts throughout the Soviet world — this edition carries its own historical weight as an artefact of ideological production. Will the city ever truly belong to those who build it?