Engels, Frederick, socialist, born in Barmen on Nov. 28, 1820, the son of a well-to-do manufacturer. Took up commerce, but already at an early age began propagating radical and socialist ideas in newspaper articles and speeches. After working for some time as a clerk in Bremen and serving for one year as an army volunteer in Berlin in 1842, he went for two years to Manchester, where his father was co-owner of a cotton mill.
In 1844 he worked for the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher published by Arnold Ruge and Karl Marx in Paris. In 1844 he returned to Barmen and in 1845 addressed communist meetings organised by Moses Hess and Gustav K?ttgen in Elberfeld. Then, until 1848, he lived alternately in Brussels and Paris; in 1846 he joined, with Marx, the secret Communist League, a predecessor of the International, and represented the Paris communities at the two League congresses in London in 1847. On the League’s instructions, he wrote, jointly with Marx, the Communist Manifesto addressed to the “working men of all countries”, which was published shortly before the February revolution [1848] (a new edition appeared in Leipzig in 1872).
In 1848 and 1849 E. worked in Cologne for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung edited by Marx, and after its suppression he contributed, in 1850, to the Politisch-oekonomische Revue. He witnessed the uprisings in Elberfeld, the Palatinate and Baden and took part in the Baden-Palatinate campaign as aide-de-camp in Willich’s volunteer corps. After the suppression of the Baden uprising E. returned as a refugee to England and re-entered his father’s firm in Manchester in 1850.
He retired from business in 1869 and has lived in London since 1870. He assisted his friend Marx in providing support for the international labour movement, which arose in 1864, and in carrying on social-democratic propaganda. E. was Secretary for Italy, Spain and Portugal on the General Council of the International. He advocates Marxian communism in opposition to both “petty bourgeois” Proudhonist and nihilistic Bakuninist anarchism. His main work is The Condition of the Working-Class in England (Leipzig, 1845; new edition, Stuttgart, 1892), which, although one-sided, possesses undeniable scientific value. His Anti-Dühring is a polemic of considerable size (2nd ed. Zurich, 1886). E.'s other published works include Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (Stuttgart, 1888), The Origin of the Family Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (4th ed., Berlin, 1891). E. also published Vols 2 and 3 of Karl Marx’s Capital and the 3rd and 4th editions of Vol. I, and contributed many articles to the Neue Zeit.
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Just went out to get smokes. It’s been ours pouring rain.on a major street I live by there eas a homeless dude nodded out in a puddle that was forming and everyone just walked by. I woke the dude up to be sure he didn’t need naloxone or just dead. He screamed at me to Keefe him alone and put his face back in the puddle. This is right outside the window of a KFC where people watched and ate chicken.
I was feeling decent before and I’m not now
nah you did the right thing, it just so happened that in this instance the person wasn’t receptive/was maybe in that position because of a mental health issue rather than a physical health crisis. I always try to intervene when I see a homeless person in a position where they might be suffering a health emergency (splayed out on the middle of the sidewalk, visibly injured, etc, vs. just laying down to sleep in a way that seems more intentional). I usually call 911 and specify that they seem to need medical attention (so they don’t send pigs) but am always paranoid they’re gonna send pigs anyway who make shit worse. So far it hasn’t happened but idk, there isn’t really a perfect solution tbh. You did your best and tried to do the right thing, def sounds like an upsetting turn of events though and I feel ya on that.
That’s so nice, I’m scared to even call for medical attention nowadays. I feel like they just send cops because there’s so fucking many of them. Do you live in a city with well funded police or this is a smaller place?
suicide CW
Called for ambulance for friend committing suicide in city of 200k and they sent 3 cop cars??
Called for medical attention from train conductor for passed out dude on subway in city of 800k and they sent 2 cops who just dragged his unconscious body off the subway
don’t want to doxx myself but yeah we have a huge police force, but it’s a big city so I think there are also just a lot of other emergency personnel as well. But like I said there really isn’t a great solution. 911 always has the risk of cops showing up, not doing anything is…not doing anything, and trying to intervene directly is legit in theory but I am super not qualified for this kind’ve thing if they are actually experiencing a serious medical emergency.
Yea, maybe we should try explicitly requesting no cops next time? I once saw only firefighters show up for a psychotic episode in my apartment so I know cops don’t always show up in my city
You can try bit you don’t really get to make 911 requests in regards to who is sent. If the procedure officially calls for cops they will be called. This dude for sure got picked up by now, it’s a busy street directly outside a business. If you call 911 you don’t get to decide whether or not cops show up and if you ask for no cops it’s almost guaranteed you’ll get cops
Worst case, if it’s an option, you can put someone in a car and drive them to the ER. Some folks I worked with, we had to do that a bunch of times bc of how fucked up shit was and we weren’t sure if the cops would even let EMS in. It’s seriously not ideal, but if you can do it safely it’s an option.
Oh, it’s not about whether I did the wrong thing or not. I’m solid on that angle. It was just a really depressing scene.
ah yeah fair. definitely sounds upsetting, no doubt about that. the million little traumas this system forces us to accumulate and normalize is pretty
inducing
Also on that angle I know most of the homeless people in town and this was a new guy. Most.of.my friends ar current or former junkes who are or have been homeless or long periods of time, none of this is new to.me. it was just like, the state the dude was in, pouring rain and pretty much insisting on drowning himself. I was just gonna help him move to a and thst keeps a vestibule.open all night for the ATM across the street to at least nod out where it’s warm and dry.
Sorry comrade. You did the right thing checking on him. Doing good stuff, trying to help people, seeing and acknowledging what’s wrong, it hurts real bad. we all deserve better than this.