Reflecting on the contributions of Friedrich Engels on his bicentenary brings three issues to mind. The first issue is, how do we read his writings today? A lot of his writings were polemics ...

Friedrich Engels wasn't born a revolutionary, but over the course of several beer-soaked days in Paris, he became part of "the greatest friendship in Western political thought." ...

Communism, a political and economic ideology that has shaped world history, is often misunderstood. Originating from Karl ...

FRIEDRICH ENGELS - FROM MANCHESTER TO MARXISM Engels, left, and Karl Marx, right, were the founding fathers of Marxism and close friends until Marx's death ...

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Partnered with Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels is acknowledged as the co-founder of communism, a revolutionary thinker in his own right who wrote on a wide range of topics ...

Industrialist's son and revolutionary thinker: Friedrich Engels, who co-wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, was born 200 years ago in Wuppertal. A day of celebrations and protests.

Friedrich Engels 1820-95 Industrialist, political theorist Indispensible Wisdom: Profit from cheap labor Influenced by: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Bestseller: The Condition of the Working Class ...

In May 1856 Friedrich Engels made his maiden trip to Ireland. Engels interest in Ireland lay within his relationship with sisters Mary and Lydia Burns.

Friedrich Engels has been un­deservedly “airbrushed from history,” says historian Tristram Hunt. Though his name is ritually invoked in any discussion of Marxism’s origins, the man and his ...