SOURCE: Review of The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, in The Westminster Review, Vol. CXXXVII, June, 1892, pp. 702-03.

In the following excerpt, the anonymous critic reviews the 1892 reprint of Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (originally published in 1845) and finds fault with the book's attack on the capitalist system.

We have received the two new volumes of the “Social Science Series,” The Condition of the Working Classes in England in 1844,¹ by Frederick Engels, and Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century,² by H. M. Hyndman. Of these the former is a reprint of a book which appeared first in 1845, and its author is not ashamed of the “good and faulty features” of the work of his youth; he even regards with wonder the fact that so many of the prophecies he then made have proved right. It is indeed true that the...