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Definition: Engels, Friedrich from Philip's Encyclopedia

German political philosopher. Engels and Marx formulated the theory of dialectical materialism and co-wrote the Communist Manifesto (1848). Engels' materialist reworking of Hegel is most evident in Anti-Dühring (1878) and Socialism, Utopian and Scientific (1882). From 1870 until Marx's death in 1883, Engels helped financially with Marx's research and continued to assist him with his writings, particularly Das Kapital. His works include Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1845).


Engels, Friedrich

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
German social and political philosopher, a friend of, and collaborator with, Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto (1848) and other key works. His later interpretations of Marxism, and his own philosophical and historical studies such as Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884) (which linked patriarchy with the development of private property), developed such concepts as historical materialism. His use of positivism and Darwinian ideas gave Marxism a scientific and deterministic flavour which was to influence Soviet thinking. In 1842 Engels's father sent him to work in the cotton factory owned by his family in Manchester, England, where he became involved with Chartism . In 1844 his lifelong friendship with Karl Marx began, and together they worked out the materialist interpretation of history and in 1847–48 wrote the Communist Manifesto . Returning to Germany during the 1848–49 revolution, Engels worked with Marx on the Neue Rheinische Zeitung/New Rhineland…
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Friedrich Engels
The German revolutionist and social theorist Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) cofounded with Karl Marx modern socialism . Friedrich Engels was born on November 28, 1820, in Barmen, Rhenish Prussia, a small industrial town. He was the oldest of the six children of Friedrich and Elisabeth Franziska…
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From The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology
A German-born industrialist whose family partly owned a textile business in Manchester, Engels spent most of his adult life working in England. He was the close collaborator and friend of MARX , introducing him to economics in the 1840s, later supporting him financially, then spending years…
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An interpreter, collaborator, and popularizer of Karl Marx . Born in Barmen, Germany, he went to Britain to manage the family factory in Manchester. He first met Marx in 1842 and his Outlines for a Critique of Political Economy was well received by the latter. The two agreed to work together in…
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A German revolutionary social and political philosopher, cofounder of Marxism and communism, born in Barmen in 1820. The son of a well-to-do textile manufacturer, Friedrich Engles was born in Barmen, German, in 1820s. The German poet Heinrich Heine and the German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel were early…
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Full text Article THE STATE

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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. BURKE, Edmund Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). The state is not abolished, it dies away. ENGELS, Friedrich Anti-Dühring (1878). …
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Full text Article REVOLUTION

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Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. BOULEZ, Pierre The Guardian , 1989. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In Randall , Life of Jefferson (1865). Every revolutionary ends as an oppr... …
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Full text Article COMMUNISM

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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. ATTLEE, Clement The Observer , 1956. [Of the Communist Party] Its relationship to democratic institutions is that of the death watch beetle – it is not a Party, it is a conspiracy. [Attr.] What is a communist? One who…
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Full text Article CLASS

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One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class. ARNOLD, Matthew Culture and Anarchy (1869). Like many of the Upper ClassHe liked the Sound of Broken Glass. …
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