# Friedrich Engels

## Biography

Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, social theorist, and revolutionary, born in Barmen, Prussia, on November 28, 1820, into a prosperous textile manufacturing family. Despite his bourgeois upbringing, he developed radical views from a young age, rejecting his family's devout Pietist values. His experiences working in a family-owned cotton mill in Manchester, England, profoundly influenced him, leading to his seminal work, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), which detailed the grim realities of industrial life.

Engels is best known for his lifelong intellectual and political partnership with Karl Marx. They co-authored the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), laying the theoretical groundwork for Marxism. Engels provided crucial financial support to Marx, enabling him to write Das Kapital. After Marx’s death in 1883, Engels dedicated himself to editing and publishing the second and third volumes of Das Kapital from Marx's extensive notes. He continued to be a leading figure in the international socialist movement, contributing his own significant works such as Anti-Dühring and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, which further popularized Marxist thought. Engels died in London on August 5, 1895.

## Books

- [The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: with a Preface written in 1892](https://samolit.com/books/95989)
- [The Communist Manifesto](https://samolit.com/books/95885)