Frederick engels

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2. Frederick Engels Frederick Engels was German socialist philosopher, the closest collaborator of Karl Marx in the foundation of modern communism.  2

3. 3 He was a German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist and revolutionary socialist . He was also a businessman, journalist and political activist, whose father was an owner of large textile factories in Sal ford and Barmen, Prussia . He was born on 28 November 1820, Barmen, Germany He was died on 5 August 1895, London, United Kingdom

4. 4 Friedrich Engels helped to financially support Marx and his family. Engels gave Marx the royalties of his book, condition of the working Class on England and arranged donations. This enabled Marx the time to study and develop his economic and political theories. In 1845 hi took Karl Marx to England They spent most of the time consulting books in Manchester Library.

5. 5 During their six weeks in England, Engels introduced Marx to several of the Chartist leaders including George Julian Harney . Engels and Marx returned to Brussels and in January 1846 they set up a Communist Correspondence Committee. The plan was to try and link together socialist leaders living different parts of Europe. Influenced by Marx’s ideas, socialists in England held a conference in London where they formed Communist League.

6. 6 Engels returned to England in 1847 where he attended a meeting of the Communist League “Central Committee” in London. At the meeting it was decided that the aims of the organisation was “the overflow of the bourgeoisie, the domination of the proletariat, the abolition of the old bourgeois society based on class antagonism and the establishment of a new society without classes and without private property.

7. 7 With Marx he co-authored The Communist Manifesto (1848), and Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx's death. It was during his time in Berlin that Engels became a communist, and also an atheist, something that would have been very shocking to his devoutly Protestant family

8. 8 He believed that a communist revolution was inevitable somewhere in Europe, due to the oppressed conditions of its workers and their vast numbers . In 1848, Engels co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Marx and also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works. Later, Engels supported Marx financially, allowing him to do research and write Das Kapital .

9. 9 After Marx's death, Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital . Marx and Engels explained that social classes had changed over time but in the 19th century the most important classes were the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.  They went on to argue that the conflict between these two classes would eventually lead to revolution and the triumph of the proletariat.

10. 10 Marx and Engels developed a body of ideas which they called scientific socialism, more commonly called Marxism. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels believed that the result when communism finally emerged as the dominant political and economic system the evils of the industrial society would disappear. Engels was a polyglot and was able to write and speak in several languages, including Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Irish, Spanish, Polish, French, English and Milanese dialect .

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