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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  • HexaSnoot [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I think that’s just a bad fake tan because she was often orange in her early career, but I can see why someone would wonder if it was blackface.

    She’s a Zionist. And believes in the Tibet Myth of “Friendly Feudalism”. She’s banned from China after promoting Dalai Lama’s image.

    CW: SA

    Btw, there’s a video of Dalai Lama having a child suck on his tongue. I think she stopped associating her image with his after that, but I haven’t heard her speak against him over it.

    • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 days ago

      imo that’s a lot darker than just bad spray tan, has she acknowledged it since?

      also

      gaga hanging out with people in Blackface

      I should have guessed re Zionism, at this point if a western artist doesn’t explicitly denounce it there’s a safe bet they’re at least ‘liberal’ Zionist both siders

      Yeah I’m aware of the Dalai Lama incident, my mom, step dad and sister are (white) ‘Tibetan Buddhists’(KMT) so its been a point of contention at home, as was him saying ‘The Dalai Lama could be reincarnated as a woman but she would have to be hot’ incident as their also nominal feminists(biggest argument I ever had with my sister as over matt healy’s cumtown appearance lmao)

      we try to avoid the issue, but I got my mom a book that includes stuff on pre-PRC Tibet and the serfdom/slavery there for her bday so hopefully we can have some productive discussion(we never really get heated over it tho tbh), but my sister has just moved from her corporate insurance job to doing books for one of the larger temples in this country so maybe I won’t bring those issue up this xmas lol

      • HexaSnoot [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        3 days ago

        imo that’s a lot darker than just bad spray tan, has she acknowledged it since?

        If she has I haven’t heard of it.

        I lived with a white Tibetan Bhuddist for a while. They were constantly dehumanizing people around them, but then would do things like boast how Tibetans pray in simple shacks while Bhuddists in China have beautiful ornate temples. This was in response to me just having a video of a Bhuddist temple in China up on a TV. Someone told me she had a lot of anti-Chinese takes so this didn’t sit with me well.

        I didn’t say any of this, but looking back: Like really, you’re going to try to look humble by claiming you have anything to do with something humble? Also, what if the Dalai Lama had instead shared his wealth? What if they mostly worshipped in simple shacks because wealth was withheld from them? And what about the Tibetan Bhuddists who want to worship differently in a way that requires more resources and a highly artistic and ornate temple? People don’t need to be poor, there’s just the existence of capital, and capital has the tendency to collect more than spread.

        • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Aye they too tend to have a tendency to engage in some orientalism and mythologise pre-PRC Tibet, I’m trying to get them to recognise that they can believe in the good tenets and practise the mindfulness & spiritualism without having to whitewash fallible people like the Dalai Lama and ignore the history of serfdom in Tibet, and that the PRC isn’t on a campaign to wipe-out ‘non approved dominations’