Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was a German philosopher, political writer, and socialist theorist whose collaboration with Karl Marx helped shape historical materialism. The Communist Manifesto presents their account of class struggle and revolutionary change in its most compressed programmatic form; Manifesto of the Communist Party is a separate live edition of that same work, not a different book. The Condition of the Working-Class in England In 1844 combines observation and analysis to show how industrial production reorganised urban life. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State extends the historical argument to kinship, ownership, and political institutions, while Socialism Utopian and Scientific distinguishes their method from earlier socialist systems.