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Friedrich Engels

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Date of birth
1820-11-28
Place of birth
Wuppertal
Date of death
1895-08-05
Place of death
London

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Friedrich Engels ( ENG-gəlz; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʔɛŋl̩s]; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He was also a businessman and Karl Marx's closest friend and collaborator.

He met Marx in 1844, and they jointly authored a number of works, including The Holy Family (1844), The German Ideology (written 1846), and The Communist Manifesto (1848), and worked as political organizers and activists in the Communist League and First International. Engels also helped Marx financially, allowing him to continue his writing after moving to London in 1849. After Marx's death in 1883, Engels compiled Volumes II and III of Das Kapital (1885 and 1894), helped found the Second International, and was the leading authority on Marxism.

Engels's family was wealthy and owned large cotton-textile mills in Prussia and England. Engels also wrote wide-ranging works of his own, including The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), Anti-Dühring (1878), Dialectics of Nature (1878–1882), The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), and Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (1886).

His philosophical writings on materialism, idealism, and dialectics supplied Marxism with an ontological and metaphysical foundation.

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German philosopher, historian, political scientist and revolutionary socialist.

Last modified: 2020-11-16 (revision #43108)

Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Kommunistiska manifestetAudiobook97891860233862014
Über AnarchismusPaperback?1977
The Communist ManifestoeBook?2017-10-19
The Communist ManifestoeBook?2005-01-25
The Communist ManifestoeBook?2017-10-19
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