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Please research the article's assertions. Whatever is credible should be sourced, and what is not should be removed. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br /> </p> <table class="messagebox mb-brainwatermark plainlinks mb-info" style=""> <tbody><tr> <td class="mb-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Information_icon.svg" class="image"><img alt="Information icon.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/50px-Information_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" srcset="/w/images/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/75px-Information_icon.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/100px-Information_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></a> </td> <td class="mb-text"><b>This article requires expansion.</b> Please <b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Engels&action=edit">help</a>.</b> <p>Though not a <b><a href="/wiki/RationalWiki:Stub" title="RationalWiki:Stub">stub</a></b> by pure word count, this article lacks depth of content. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Engels.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Engels.jpg/165px-Engels.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="232" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Engels.jpg/248px-Engels.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Engels.jpg 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="422" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Engels.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>OK, even <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Dennett" title="Daniel Dennett">Dennett</a>'s a bit envious of that beard.</div></div></div> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #FF0000; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#FF0000"><b>Join the party!</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism"><font size="4" color="White"><b>Communism</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#F9F5D8;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Communists" title="Category:Communists"><img alt="Icon communism.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/4/42/Icon_communism.svg/100px-Icon_communism.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/4/42/Icon_communism.svg/150px-Icon_communism.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/4/42/Icon_communism.svg/200px-Icon_communism.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#FF0000; text-align:center;"><b>Opiates for the masses</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#F9F5D8;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Trotskyism" class="mw-redirect" title="Trotskyism">Trotskyism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolshevik" title="Bolshevik">Bolshevism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maoism" title="Maoism">Maoism</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#FF0000; text-align:center;"><b>From each</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#F9F5D8;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Althusser" title="Louis Althusser">Louis Althusser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xi_Jinping" title="Xi Jinping">Xi Jinping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin" title="Aleksandr Dugin">Aleksandr Dugin</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#FF0000; text-align:center;"><b>To each</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#F9F5D8;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Containment" title="Containment">Containment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Communist_Party_of_Britain" title="New Communist Party of Britain">New Communist Party of Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leading_Light_Communist_Organization" title="Leading Light Communist Organization">Leading Light Communist Organization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Manifesto" title="Communist Manifesto">Communist Manifesto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klassekampen" title="Klassekampen">Klassekampen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">Nationalism</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Communism" title="Template:Communism">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Communism" title="Template talk:Communism">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Communism&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Friedrich Engels</b> (1820-1895), a prominent <a href="/wiki/German" class="mw-redirect" title="German">Prussian</a>-born <a href="/wiki/Communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist">communist</a> philosopher and <a href="/wiki/Irony" title="Irony">British industrialist</a>, co-wrote (with <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a>) the <i><a href="/wiki/Communist_Manifesto" title="Communist Manifesto">Communist Manifesto</a></i>, and <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">used the profits from his Manchester textile mill</a> to provide Marx with financial support during the writing of <i><a href="/wiki/Das_Kapital" title="Das Kapital">Das Kapital</a></i>. Engels died in 1895 from throat cancer in London at the age of 74.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>Despite his importance in the development of <a href="/wiki/Marxism" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxism">Marxism</a>, Engels is significantly less cited than his writing partner. Some people would account for this by claiming that he did the impossible and managed to be more boring than Marx;<sup>[<a href="/wiki/Help:References" title="Help:References"><i>citation needed</i></a>]</sup> his <i>The Condition of the Working Class in England</i> (1845), which Engels wrote based on his experience in the course of running his mill,<sup>[<a href="/wiki/Help:References" title="Help:References"><i>citation needed</i></a>]</sup> is sometimes cited as being even more boring<sup>[<a href="/wiki/Help:References" title="Help:References"><i>citation needed</i></a>]</sup> than <i>Das Kapital</i>. </p><p>His <i>Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State</i> (1884) had a large influence on the development of Marxist <a href="/wiki/Class" class="mw-redirect" title="Class">class</a> theory and of <a href="/wiki/Historical_determinism" title="Historical determinism">historical determinism</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ironic" class="mw-redirect" title="Ironic">Ironically</a>, it drew mostly from <i>Ancient Society</i> (1877) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Henry_Morgan" class="extiw" title="wp:Lewis Henry Morgan" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Lewis Henry Morgan">Lewis Henry Morgan</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> an <a href="/wiki/American" class="mw-redirect" title="American">American</a> capitalist <a href="/wiki/Rail_transportation" title="Rail transportation">railroad tycoon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> politician.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[note 1]</a></sup> </p><p>His <i>Principles of Communism</i> give a brief but concise explanation of communism, its essential ideas/theories, its basic policies, and an analysis of capitalism compared to previous economic systems. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Engels&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_mysticism#In_Marxist_theory_of_social_evolution" title="National mysticism">Marxist theory of social evolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Fourier" title="Charles Fourier">Charles Fourier</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Engels&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li>Works of Friedrich Engels in <a href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/de:Friedrich_Engels" class="extiw" title="wikisource:de:Friedrich Engels" rel="nofollow">German</a> and <a href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/en:Author:Friedrich_Engels" class="extiw" title="wikisource:en:Author:Friedrich Engels" rel="nofollow">English</a> on Wikisource</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://monthlyreview.org/2020/05/01/engels-vs-marx-two-hundred-years-of-frederick-engels/">"Engels vs. Marx?: Two Hundred Years of Frederick Engels"</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Review" class="extiw" title="wp:Monthly Review" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Monthly Review">Monthly 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