the origin of the family private property and state

His father hoped that working at the Manchester firm might make his son reconsider not only his career plans, but also his left-liberal political opinions. In Manchester, which was a manufacturing center at that time, he was supposed to work in the offices of the Ermen and Engels’s Victoria Mill, which made sewing threads. His parents had sent the twenty-two-year old Engels to Manchester, England, and he made stop meet Marx.

Though Karl Marx was the editor of this newspaper, they would not meet until late 1842 in Paris. He anonymously published articles in the Rheinische Zeitung, exposing the poor employment and living conditions endured by factory workers. He was assigned to Berlin, where he attended university lectures at the University of Berlin and began to associate with a group of Young Hegelians.

In 1841, Engels joined the Prussian Army as a member of the Household Artillery. Instead of a career in textile production, he dropped school and chose the military. Especially important became for the latter Der Ursprung der Familie, des States und des Privateigentums (The Origin of the Family, the State and Private Property), published in 1884.īorn in November 1820 in Barmen, now Wuppertal, in Prussia as the son of a wealthy cotton textile manufacturer, Engels defied the career path his Pietist protestant parents had in mind for him. The German philosopher Friedrich Engels (1825-1895), who co-authored with Karl Marx (1818-1883) The Communist Manifesto (1848), formed with his works not only Marxist theory, but also the development of the ideology of socialist feminism.

The origin of the family private property and state