This article explores the link between political and military strategy and tactics in the work of Friedrich Engels. Though widely praised for his understanding of military affairs, Engels’ interlocutors have tended to be dismissive of his political works. By exploring his politics through the lens of his military writings this article challenges the view that Engels was a mechanical materialist and political fatalist thinker. It argues that his military writings cannot be understood apart from his political works, and that, whatever the historical limitations of the specific conclusions to which he came, his method in these writings illuminate his profound grasp of the relationship between strategy and tactics at both the military and political levels.

本文探讨了弗里德里希·恩格斯（Friedrich Engels）工作中政治和军事战略与战术之间的联系。尽管恩格斯的对话者因其对军事事务的理解而广受赞誉，但他对他的政治工作却不屑一顾。通过从他的军事著作的角度探讨他的政治，这篇文章挑战了恩格斯是机械唯物主义者和政治宿命论思想家的观点。它认为，除了他的政治著作之外，他的军事著作是无法理解的，并且，不管他得出的具体结论的历史局限性如何，他在这些著作中的方法都说明了他深刻理解战略和战术之间的关系。军事和政治层面。