Friedrich Engels
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Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best known for his lifelong collaboration with Karl Marx, with whom he co-authored The Comm
Engels in 1877
Engels's childhood home in Barmen, Prussia, a town which he later described as the "Zion of the obscurantists".
Self-portrait of Engels at age 19 in 1839
Sketch by Engels depicting the Berlin Freien, 1842
Das Kapital
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, also known as Das Kapital, is a foundational text in Marxist theory by Karl Marx. His magnum opus, the work is a critical analysis of political economy, meant
Friedrich Engels
…system that came to be known as Marxism. After Marx's death, Engels served as the editor of his works, completing the second and third volumes of Das Kapital. Born in Barmen, Prussia, to a prosperous mercantile family, Engels rejected his family's devoutly Pietist values from a young age. He became involved…
Title page of the first German edition of Volume I (1867)
Adam Smith
David Ricardo
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel