Marxist historiography the liberatory intent of Marxist historiography; such practitioners often refer to their work as "marxian" or "Marxian". Friedrich Engels' most important historical contribution was "Der deutsche Bauernkrieg" ("The German Peasants' War"), which analysed social warfare in early Protestant Germany in terms of emerging capitalist classes. "The German Peasants' War" indicate the Marxist interest in history from below and class analysis, and attempts a dialectical analysis. Marx's most important works on social and political history include "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon", "The Communist Manifesto", "The German Ideology", and those chapters of "Das Kapital" dealing with the historical emergence of capitalists
The Communist Manifesto but such a document was later deemed inappropriate for an open, non-confrontational organisation. Engels nevertheless wrote the "Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith", detailing the League's programme. A few months later, in October, Engels arrived at the League's Paris branch to find that Moses Hess had written an inadequate manifesto for the group, now called the League of Communists. In Hess's absence, Engels severely criticised this manifesto, and convinced the rest of the League to entrust him with drafting a new one. This became the draft "Principles of Communism", described as "less of a credo and more of an