After a quick introduction, this document gives you the links to three letters as published at www.marxists.org.
Marx lived from 1818 to1883, and Engels survived
him by a dozen years (1820-1895). So, in the last part of the century,
Engels became the interpreter of their joint and separate works. In these
letters, he deals with the issue which many people have found the most
difficult for "Marxism": the question of "economic determinism".
His position against a determinist reading is clear. (And of course, late
in life, Marx said in frustration: "I am not a Marxist!")
Please keep in mind that The German Ideology
is
from 1846: it is 45 years earlier than these letters, 2 years before the
Manifesto, 21 years before the first volume of Marx's Capital,
and before the innumerable events and debates of all those years. The
German Ideology was written by a 27-year old Marx and 25-year-old Engels.
@Engels, Friedrich
1890 Letter
to J. Bloch in Konigsberg. (Text as first published in Der sozialistische
Akademiker, #19, 1895.)
1893 Letter to Franz Mehring.
1894 Letter
to Starkenberg. (I have also seen this letter published as "to W. Borgius".
Don't ask me.)