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Friedrich Engels
said
Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert.
— (1876)
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
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He wrote half of the world's most consequential political pamphlet, then spent twenty years selling cotton to fund the other half. Engels turned factory-floor horror into theory, co-built Marxism, and after his partner died, became the doctrine's chief interpreter and finisher.
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Born in 1820 to a wealthy Prussian textile family, Engels shed their Pietist faith early and drifted into Young Hegelian circles during military service in Berlin. His father dispatched him to Manchester in 1842 to manage a cotton mill investment; what he saw in the factories became The Condition of the Working Class in England. He met Marx in Paris in 1844, and the partnership stuck. They co-wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848, fought in that year's revolutions, and fled to England when the barricades fell. For two decades Engels lived a split existence — respectable merchant by day in Manc…
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Friedrich Engels
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Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ...
— Letter to Karl Marx (9 December 1869)
Friedrich Engels
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What do you say to the elections in the factory districts? Once again the proletariat has discredited itself terribly...
— Letter to Karl Marx (18 November 1868), quoted in Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Selected Correspondence, 1846–1895 (1942), pp. 253-254
Friedrich Engels
said
Lassalle. It would be a pity about the fellow because of his great ability, but these goings-on are really too bad.
— Letter to Karl Marx (7 March 1856), quoted in The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Volume 40. Letters 1856–59 (2010), p.
Friedrich Engels
said
It is clear even from the English press that Girardin doesn't support Cavaignac.
— Letter to Karl Marx (23 May 1851)
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