Engels, Frederick, socialist, born in Barmen on Nov. 28, 1820, the son of a well-to-do manufacturer. Took up commerce, but already at an early age began propagating radical and socialist ideas in newspaper articles and speeches. After working for some time as a clerk in Bremen and serving for one year as an army volunteer in Berlin in 1842, he went for two years to Manchester, where his father was co-owner of a cotton mill.

In 1844 he worked for the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher published by Arnold Ruge and Karl Marx in Paris. In 1844 he returned to Barmen and in 1845 addressed communist meetings organised by Moses Hess and Gustav K?ttgen in Elberfeld. Then, until 1848, he lived alternately in Brussels and Paris; in 1846 he joined, with Marx, the secret Communist League, a predecessor of the International, and represented the Paris communities at the two League congresses in London in 1847. On the League’s instructions, he wrote, jointly with Marx, the Communist Manifesto addressed to the “working men of all countries”, which was published shortly before the February revolution [1848] (a new edition appeared in Leipzig in 1872).

In 1848 and 1849 E. worked in Cologne for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung edited by Marx, and after its suppression he contributed, in 1850, to the Politisch-oekonomische Revue. He witnessed the uprisings in Elberfeld, the Palatinate and Baden and took part in the Baden-Palatinate campaign as aide-de-camp in Willich’s volunteer corps. After the suppression of the Baden uprising E. returned as a refugee to England and re-entered his father’s firm in Manchester in 1850.

He retired from business in 1869 and has lived in London since 1870. He assisted his friend Marx in providing support for the international labour movement, which arose in 1864, and in carrying on social-democratic propaganda. E. was Secretary for Italy, Spain and Portugal on the General Council of the International. He advocates Marxian communism in opposition to both “petty bourgeois” Proudhonist and nihilistic Bakuninist anarchism. His main work is The Condition of the Working-Class in England (Leipzig, 1845; new edition, Stuttgart, 1892), which, although one-sided, possesses undeniable scientific value. His Anti-Dühring is a polemic of considerable size (2nd ed. Zurich, 1886). E.'s other published works include Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (Stuttgart, 1888), The Origin of the Family Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (4th ed., Berlin, 1891). E. also published Vols 2 and 3 of Karl Marx’s Capital and the 3rd and 4th editions of Vol. I, and contributed many articles to the Neue Zeit.

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  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
    24·
    2 months ago

    Kkkrackkka thanksgiving:

    • Turkkkey
    • Mashed po-hate-oes
    • Green bean caSSerole
    • Klan-berry sauce
    • Opress-ent rolls
    • The Daily Caller-d greens
    • Apple pie (racist)
  • Abracadaniel [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    Avatar is kinda basic and gets hate for being “fern gully in space” and for erasing (appropriating?) real indigenous struggle. For me, Cameron’s tech fetishism and direction make up for it on a technical level, and the obvious anti-colonial-extraction make up for it on a thematic level. This is a big budget Hollywood film that loudly says “blowing up attack helicopters and skewering Marines to protect your home is good and justified” without making the Na’vi kill a baby or something like so many other films do when their villain is fighting against the status quo for a better future.

    is this a bad take? someone over thanksgiving said Avatar (2009) was the “worst movie i’ve ever seen” which seemed a bit dramatic but is making me reexamine my feelings.

    • XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      avatar is awesome and not liking it is npc behavior, for lack of a better term. “avatar is bad” is a common opinion in the zeitgeist but if you ask people why they don’t like it they can really never give a substantive answer. they don’t know why they believe it

    • MF_COOM [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      I like the movies, great have a beer and have a good time watching GI stand-ins get skewered with pool cues. I don’t really care if people like Avatar but I do understand if they think it’s racist.

      Not liking it because it’s “Fern Gully in space” though is a completely confusing take. Like so many great films have similar plots to older films, or are even directly remakes. Do these people only watch films to see original plots? Super fucking weird behavior to me.

  • Taster_Of_Treats [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    Reddit front page says Kim Jong Un ordered NK troops in Ukraine to blow themselves up before surrendering. Source: NK Daily, a SK propaganda rag that is likely funded by the US.

    3k upvotes. Who believes this shit?

  • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    “Cancelled” by the right: You said something true and your career got destroyed

    “Cancelled” by the left: You committed multiple crimes and got away with it.

  • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    Funny how in one of the what is considered one of the best episode’s (Marge vs the Monorail) of all time this happens:

    When the Environmental Protection Agency fines Mr. Burns $3 million for dumping nuclear waste in a Springfield park, a town meeting is held to decide how to spend the money.

    Marge nearly persuades the townspeople to repair Springfield’s heavily damaged Main Street, but fast-talking salesman Lyle Lanley leads a song-and-dance routine that convinces them to build a monorail.

    Then years later in the movie(while perhaps not the definitive jump the shark moment is definitely one of the series’ many, many nadirs) the EPA are big government villains

  • knifestealingcrow [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    OPEN CALL FOR BOOK RECS

    I got offered a 2 dollar raise to fill in for a different position at my job for the next month, and the only thing I’m expected to do is be physically present in the building. I can do whatever I want for the entire 12 hour shift, so I’m looking for books to fill at least some of that time.

    I’ve been finding it difficult to adequately explain what socialism/a socialist state would look like in practice when I discuss politics with other people. I can identify and explain the problems with capitalism, their causes, and ways to fight back against them, but the “what comes after?” question is one I have trouble putting in concrete terms, and as a result I tend to come off as unconvincing and a bit idealistic. Books dealing with this in some way (explanations of the electoral structures of various socialist states, workplace organization, education systems, housing programs, etc.) would be a big help!

  • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Being a community figure is hard. I look out for queer addicts, a cross section of people that often get overlooked. Thanksgiving was rough. I spent a month going to food banks gathering up food to feed a shit ton of people and send everybody home with leftovers, donating plasma so I could even make it to the food banks. But I just remind myself that if I don’t do it, nobody would do it. I gave so many people the first good Thanksgiving they’ve had since coming out, and that was a really good feeling. Just stressful having so many people look up to me, in both sobriety and queerness, when I feel like I’m not even doing that well in those regards.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    saw somebody say “i block the fakenews comm, it makes the home feed much easier” and all i have to say is dark souls does not have an easy mode

    how do i upvote a tagline

  • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Whenever I get drunk/high and play Pokemon (showdown or a nuzlocke) I genuinely become one of the best players in the world, making perfect predictions and seeing all timelines, or I forget the difference between attack and special attack and throw.

    Fortunately for my elo, today I’m the former. I just absolutely stunted on someone’s entire team with perfect switches between basculegion and illumise