biography
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| (1820–95)
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| biography:
| Socialist philosopher and businessman, collaborator with Karl Marx, and founder of ‘scientific socialism’, born in Barmen, W Germany. From 1842 he lived mostly in England and published his study The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1845. A partner in the Ermen and Engels cotton plant in Manchester, he was converted to communism by the radical, Moses Hess. After a first brief meeting with Marx in Cologne (1842), he later visited him in Paris (1844) and they forged a permanent partnership to promote socialism. All the time supporting Marx financially, Engels collaborated on the Communist Manifesto (1848), and on the organization of an international communist movement. After Marx's death he continued to work on Das Kapital from Marx's drafts, publishing the second and third volumes in 1885 and 1894. |
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