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path finders who have guided us through..some short portraits of International and
National Communist Stalwarts. And links to sites relating to study on them. The archive is
under developement and in no way complete.International
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INTERNATIONAL
FRIEDRICH ANGELS
1820-1895
 Born on 28 November 1820 in the German city of
Barmen, Friedrich Engles was the eldest son of a textile manufacturer. Engels was slowly
taken by Hegel and the Young Hegelian movement that flourished in the 1830. In 1842 Engels
moved to England to work in his father's firm in the city of Manchester. Already a
communist, his contacts with factory workers in England distanced him from the idealist
Hegelians and convinced him of the proletariat's potential as a revolutionary class. He
met and collaborated with Marx. Between 1845 and 1850 Engels collaborated with Marx on
scholarly and practical political activities in Brussels and Paris. They both joined the
German League of the Just (later renamed the Communist League) and coauthored the
Communist Manifesto. After the 1848 Revolution Engles worked with Marx on the Neue
Rheinische Zeitung. After a year's stay in France, Engles returned to Germany to help
resist the counterrevolution before settling, in 1850, in Manchester to rejoin the family
firm. Here he stayed until 1870, financially subsidizing Marx and continuing their
scholarly and political collaboration. Engels retired in 1870, moved to London, and took
over the daily operation of the First International from an ailing Marx. For the next
decade or so Engels established his professional reputation as a major philosopher with
works like Anti-Duhring, Origin of the Family, and Ludwig Feuerbach. When Marx died in
1883, Engles devoted himself to editing and publishing volumes two and three of Capital,
as well as helping establish the Second International. Engels died on 5 August 1895 of
cancer while working on the fourth volume of Marx's Capital, which was subsequently
published as Theories of Surplus Value.
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