The frock-coated communist: the revolutionary life of Friedrich Engels
Biography, Historical biography, Politics and government biography, European history, Politics and government
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Summary
Friedrich Engels was a textile magnate and fox-hunter, a raffish, high-living, heavy drinking devotee of the good things in life. But Engels was also the man behind Karl Marx who for forty years funded him, looked after his children, soothed… his furies, and provided one-half of history's most celebrated ideological partnership. He was co-author of The Manifesto of the Communist Party and co-founder of what would come to be known as Marxism. Interpreted and misinterpreted, quoted and misquoted, Friedrich Engels became one of the central architects of modern global socialism. 2009.