Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, social and political theorist and revolutionary socialist, born in Barmen, Prussia, to a prosperous mercantile family. Sent to Manchester in 1842 to work in a cotton mill, he wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845). From 1844 he worked with Karl Marx, with whom he co-authored The Communist Manifesto (1848) and developed what became known as Marxism. He fought in the Revolutions of 1848, then supported the Marx family from the family firm of Ermen & Engels. After Marx died in 1883 he completed the second and third volumes of Das Kapital; he died of cancer in London in 1895.