Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism | Engels, Friedrich - The Economic Journal (essay date 1895)

The Economic Journal (essay date 1895)

SOURCE: The Economic Journal, Vol. V, No. 19, September, 1895, pp. 490-92.

[In this obituary, the anonymous author discusses the London death of Engels and offers a brief summary of Engels' life, works, and collaboration with Karl Marx.]

It will be news to many who have long associated Engels with Marx and Marx with Engels, that Friedrich Engels was living quietly in London till the 5th of August, 1895, when the fatal cancer ended his career. He had been long our guest, and we had treated him well; we had allowed him to carry out his work unmolested, in the ways he liked best.

As Liebknecht said, ‘we cannot think of the one man without the other, and there is no third.’ Yet Engels began his public career by a work that seems to have been entirely his own, the book on The Condition of the Working Classes in England (1845). It was finished in Barmen, Rhenish Prussia, where...

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