Friedrich Engels

45 books

About the Author

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was a German philosopher, historian, and revolutionary socialist whose intellectual partnership with Karl Marx profoundly shaped modern political thought. Born into a wealthy industrialist family in Barmen, Prussia, Engels managed his father's textile mills in Manchester, England, where he witnessed firsthand the brutal conditions of the working class during the Industrial Revolution. This experience fueled his lifelong commitment to socialism and critique of capitalism. Engels co-authored the seminal Communist Manifesto in 1848 and edited the first volumes of Marx's Das Kapital after his friend's death. His independent works, such as The Housing Question (1872), dissected urban poverty and bourgeois housing policies, arguing that the 'housing question' was inseparable from the broader social question of proletarian emancipation. Engels's clear, polemical prose bridged theory and practice, inspiring generations of activists and scholars worldwide.

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analytical polemical accessible