Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (German: Friedrich Engels; November 28, 1820 - August 5, 1895) was a German communist activist, philosopher, political theorist, historian, textile businessman and journalist. He is one of the founders of Marxism, a close friend of Karl Marx, and calls himself the "second fiddler." Since meeting Marx in 1844, Engels provided Marx with a large amount of financial support and co-authored with him such works as "The Communist Manifesto", "The Holy Family" and "The German Ideology". After Marx's death in 1883, Engels continued to lead the international workers' movement, helped Marx complete his unfinished "Das Kapital" and other works, and promoted the establishment of the Second International in 1889. Engels's representative works include "The Condition of the Working Class in England", "Anti-Dühring", "Dialectics of Nature", "The Origin of Family, Private Property and the State" and "Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy".