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Karl Marx (1818–83) was born in Germany into an assimilated Jewish family. As a brilliant young university student, he trained in philosophy and was greatly influenced by the thinking of the German philosopher, Hegel, who had developed a philosophy of history. He met Frederick Engels (1820–95), son of a wealthy industrialist, in Paris in ...
Feb 5, 2021 · Before Marx and Engels, movements to emancipate working people were guided by immediate demands and borrowings from moral writings, like those found in early Christianity. The conditions of working-class struggle changed radically soon after Engels’ death, when monopoly capitalism replaced pre-monopoly or competitive capitalism.
May 17, 2022 · Engels—who also agrees with Proudhon’s critique of private property—develops a critique of liberal democracy from the point of view of communism: given that, “The French Revolution was the rise of democracy in Europe,” and that “Democracy is, as I take all forms of government to be, a contradiction in itself, an untruth, nothing but hypocrisy (theology, as we Germans call it), at ...
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Jun 27, 2022 · democracy in Europe,” and that “Democracy is, as I take all forms of government to be, a contradiction in itself, an untruth, nothing but hypocrisy (theology , as we Germans call it), at the ...
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Marx and Engels and the ‘Collapse’ of Capitalism. In 1786, three years before the outbreak of the French Revolution, Gracchus Babeuf wrote: “The majority is always on the side of routine and immobility, so much is it unenlightened, encrusted, apathetic . . . Those who do not want to move forward are the enemies of those who do, and ...
Oct 6, 2022 · No less important for Engels, such developments portended repercussions for the workers’ movement in Europe, because America no longer acted as the safety valve for Europe. “The stream of emigration, which Europe sends to America annually, only exaggerates the consequences of the capitalist economy, so that a colossal crash will come in the long or short term” (MEW, vol. 19, 307).
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Abstract Marx and Engels’ development during the 1840s is often approached by comparing their main theoretical work before and after 1846. Yet Marx and Engels were both active participants in political movements building up to the revolutionary wave which swept across Europe in 1848–49. This political context, and their personal belief in the political importance of the proletariat, are ...
