Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, critic of political economy, historian, political theorist and revolutionary socialist.
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Das Kapital
Das Kapital, also known as Capital: A Critique of Political Economy or sometimes simply Capital (Das Kapital.
While Marx did not live to publish the planned second and third parts, they were both completed from his notes and published after his death by his colleague Friedrich Engels.
Karl Marx
German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary.
Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the British Museum Reading Room.
Revolutionary socialism
Political philosophy, doctrine, and tradition within socialism which stresses the idea that a social revolution is necessary in order to bring about structural changes to society.
In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote:
The Condition of the Working Class in England
The Condition of the Working Class in England (Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England) is an 1845 book by the German philosopher Friedrich Engels, a study of the industrial working class in Victorian England.
Beachy Head
Chalk headland in East Sussex, England.
The ashes of German social scientist and philosopher Friedrich Engels, one of the fathers of communism, were scattered off the cliffs at Beachy Head into the Channel, as he had requested.
Wuppertal
Wuppertal ( "Wupper Dale"; named Barmen-Elberfeld from 1929 to 1930; founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities of Elberfeld, Barmen, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg and Vohwinkel) is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany.
Barmen was the birthplace of Friedrich Engels.
Humboldt University of Berlin
Public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
Past and present faculty and notable alumni include 57 Nobel Prize laureates (the most of any German university by a substantial margin), as well as eminent philosophers, sociologists, artists, lawyers, politicians, mathematicians, scientists, and heads of state; among them are Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Otto von Bismarck, W. E. B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Arthur Schopenhauer, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Walter Benjamin, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Karl Liebknecht, Ernst Cassirer, Heinrich Heine, Eduard Fraenkel, Max Planck and the Brothers Grimm.
Dialectical materialism
Dialectical materialism is a philosophy of science, history, and nature developed in Europe and based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan (Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats) is an 1884 philosophical treatise by Friedrich Engels.
Critique of political economy
Form of social critique that aims to reject the various social categories and structures which are constitutive of the contemporary form of resource allocation , according to the adherents of this form of critique.
However Marx's companion Friedrich Engels also engaged in critique of political economy in his 1844 Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy, which helped lay down some of the foundation for what Marx was to take further.