Capital. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

The philosophical and economic ideas of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) played a huge role in the life of the whole world and our country in particular, laying the foundations for a revolutionary teaching about society. "Capital", a massive three-volume work by Karl Marx, was revised by the German historian and economist Y. Borchardt, who created a more compact version of it. The compiler's idea is to "let Marx speak for himself" and give any reader the opportunity to understand the essence of the dialectical-materialist approach. The work "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" by Friedrich Engels (1884) is devoted to the evolution of family and marriage, the origin and essence of statehood. The book also includes the "Communist Manifesto" (1848), written by scholars on behalf of the society "League of the Just". This document marked the beginning of the formation of the international communist movement. All these works were mandatory for study in universities in the USSR and influenced the worldview of Soviet citizens for many years. But were the works of Marx and Engels correctly understood, interpreted?