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Zur Wohnungsfrage
Friedrich Engels/Christian Hiller/Jesko Fezer/Nikolaus Hirsch/Wilfried Kuehn/Hila Peleg

213 pp.
thread-sewn softcover with jacket



Leipzig July, 2015
ISBN: 9783959050463
Edition Number: 1

Width: 11.5 cm
Length: 18.5 cm

Language(s): German

Editor
Christian Hiller, Jesko Fezer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Wilfried Kuehn, Hila Peleg

Author
Friedrich Engels

Designer
Studio Matthias Görlich

Comment
Reinhold Martin, Neil Smith

Co-publisher
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Wohnungsfrage.

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.

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