Friedrich Engels: Zur Wohnungsfrage
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Text: Friedrich Engels
Commentary from Reinhold Martin, Neil Smith
German
ISBN 978-3-95905-046-3
EUR 12.00
Available at bookstores, the shop at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and online at Spector Books.
In a series of three essays published by Friedrich Engels in 1872 in the Leipzig newspaper Der Volksstaat, the author analyses the structural conditions surrounding housing shortages in capitalism and delivers a polemic against the reformist ideas of middle-class socialists and the bourgeoisie. He rejected a pre-revolutionary approach to improving living conditions. The housing question could not, in his view, be resolved with architectural ideas or urban-planning concepts but required the overthrow of social relations.