Friedrich Engels
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Philosophy, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers, Capitalism, Capitalists, Socialism, Socialists, Class Conflict
- Curriculum: 19th Century European History, German History
Article abstract: In partnership with Karl Marx, Engels analyzed the origins and nature of industrial capitalist society and worked to bring about the overthrow of that society by a working-class revolution.
Early Life
Friedrich Engels was born into the social class whose domination he later strove to overturn. His father, Friedrich, owned one of the principal cotton mills in the Wupper Valley, in the Rhineland territory that Prussia had taken over in 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars. It was assumed that young Friedrich, the first of nine children, would...
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