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Friedrich Engels ( November 28 1820 - August 5 1895) was a German Socialist philosopher and the co-founder of modern Communist theory with Karl Marx. In 1848, they published The Communist Manifesto together. Engels edited several volumes of Das Kapital (Capital: A Critique of Political Economy) after Marx's death.1 Biography
Engels was born in Barmen-Elberfeld (now Wuppertal), the eldest son of a successful German textile industrialist. As a young man, his father sent him to EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England to help manage his cotton-factory in ManchesterThis article is about the city in England. For alternative meanings, see Manchester (disambiguation). Manchester is a city in North West England, which in 2002 had a population of approximately 422,302. The city is situated in the centre of the large metr. Shocked by the widespread povertyPoverty describes a wide range of circumstances associated with need, hardship and lack of resources, as well as the decision by some—e. ascetics, monks, and nuns—to live simply. For some, poverty is a subjective and comparative term; for others, it is mo in the cityA city is an urban area, differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. City can also be a synonym for " downtown. Introduction A city usually consists of residential, industrial and business areas, he began writing an account which was published in 1845 as Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.
In the same year, Engels began contributing to a journal called the Franco-German Annals which was edited and published by Karl Marx in ParisEiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The city is built on an arc of the River Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the Right Bank to the north and the smaller Left Bank to. After their first meeting in person, it turned out that both shared the same views on capitalismCapitalism generally refers to a combination of economic practices that became institutionalized in Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries. Exactly which historic and current practices are considered part of "capitalism" varies among users of the term and hence they decided to work more closely together. After Marx was deported from FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. in January of 1845, they decided to move to Belgium, which permitted a greater freedom of expression than other countries in Europe.
In July 1845 Engels took Karl Marx to England. There he met an Irish working-class woman named Mary Burns with whom he lived until her death; then he lived with her sister Lizzie . These women may have introduced him to the Chartist movement, of whose leaders he met several, including George Harney . Engels and Marx returned to Brussels in January 1846 where they set up the Communist Correspondence Committee. The plan was to unite socialist leaders living in different parts of Europe. Influenced by Marx's ideas, socialists in England held a conference in London where they formed a new organisation called the Communist League. Engels attended as a delegate and had a great impact on the developed strategy of action.
In 1847 Engels and Marx began writing a pamphlet together. It was based on Engels' The Principles of Communism. The 12,000-word pamphlet was finished in six weeks, written in such a manner as to make communist theory understandable to a wide audience. It was named The Communist Manifesto and was published in February 1848. In March both Engels and Marx were expelled from Belgium. They moved to Cologne where they began to publish a radical newspaper, the New Rhenish Gazette.
By 1849 both were forced to leave the country and moved to London. The Prussian authorities applied pressure on the British government to expel the two men but the Prime Minister, Lord John Russell, held liberal views on freedom of expression and refused. With only the money that Engels could raise, the Marx family lived in extreme poverty.
In order to help supply Karl Marx with an income, Engels returned to work for his father in Manchester, before moving to London in 1870. After Marx's death in 1883, Engels devoted the rest of his life to editing and translating Marx's writings. He died in London on August 5, 1895.
