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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  • GinAndJuche [comrade/them]English
    7•2 years ago

    In the beginning God created the OST and the stages. Now the game was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of Ishiwatari was hovering over the waters. And God said, Let there be Neutral, and there were airdashes. God saw that the neutral was good, and he separated the neutral from the setplay. God called the neutral Slayer, and the setplay he called Millia. And there was Oki, and there was abare — the first day. God’s gift.

  • ElectronNumberSeven [she/her]English
    8•2 years ago

    Idk why but people trying to sell me sometimes always gives me massive ASMR

    Like I was just watching a video by the Lock Picking Lawyer, who usually never gives me ASMR, but like as soon as he started advertising stuff on his website I got tingles

  • AlicePraxis [any]English
    11•2 years ago

    why is the URL for “X corp” still twitter.com? the rebrand happened 8 months ago… I’m guessing they’re just too incompetent to change the URL without breaking something major

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]English
    17•2 years ago

    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

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]English
    5•2 years ago

    ugh trying to study for my archaeology exam tomorrow and I’m having to deal with this surge of grief at the same time. I feel like I’m getting nothing done and I can’t focus worth shit. doesn’t help that the subject matter is extremely frustrating (the overwhelming majority of archaeology here is corporate archaeology in service of clear cutters, strip miners, and oil companies) and the prof still works in that field so you can tell where his bias lays

  • GinAndJuche [comrade/them]English
    6•2 years ago

    letting out a comically pathetic “nooooooooo” after stepping barefoot into a massive dog turd. I was almost there in time buddy :(

    Edit: Nothing beats failing to hop to the other side where the shower is trailing dog shit every time I stumble.

    I wish I was doing a bit rn. My day is going to suck tomorrow. It was on a rug too.

    Foot- scrubbed raw, bar of soap-depleted, loofah- forever tainted.

    I still feel the squish. It went between my toes 🤮

  • SoylentSnake [he/him, they/them]English
    15•2 years ago

    DAE hard to distinguish between neoliberal cult of productivity brainworms causing shame around what you’re doing not being “good enough” and not being able to find an activity to do vs. a normal and relatively healthy restlessness brought on by the creativity of the human spirit & a natural desire for novelty??

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]English
    4•2 years ago

    Excited for Path of Exile 3.23 announcementparty-cat

    Today they posted a very insignificant teaser but some eggheads figured out there was a double cipher in the teaser that possibly implies they’re bringing back Sentinel, Ultimatum, and an Atlas expansion. bloomer How cool is that?

  • Kestrel [comrade/them]English
    6•2 years ago

    Question about I’m a Virgo

    spoiler

    When Jones explains to The Hero that capitalism necessitates poverty and unemployment and therefore crime, she blows his mind and he drifts away, astounded. Surely this is a jab that Boots Riley is making at libs about the power of debate and facts and logic?

  • Goblin [any]English
    6•2 years ago

    Posting to be perceived but not witnessed. The bugs are inside the house 👁️

  • theposterformerlyknownasgood [she/her]English
    4•2 years ago

    If it wasn’t because Tarantino’s thing was feet to the exclusion of anything else, pretty much every single thing he’s ever done would have been grounds for a sexual harassment lawsuit or a metoo case, but instead it’s just treated as a joke.