Friedrich Engels

*
planted: 17/07/2020last tended: 18/09/2022

Marxism.

Marx's friendship with another fellow-German, Frederick Engles, had the greatest effect on him.

Marx for Beginners

The son of a rich textile manufacturer, he left Prussia in the 1842 to work as a business agent for his father's branch office in Manchester. Engles was a restless 'left' Hegelian anyway, but first-hand contact with working class misery affected him deeply.

Marx for Beginners

1. Elsewhere

1.2. In the Agora

1.3. Mentions

Recent changes. Source. Peer Production License.