Partnered with Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels is acknowledged as the co-founder of communism, a revolutionary thinker in his own right who wrote on a wide range of topics, from economics to history to ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

Anyone who has taken an introductory course in political science knows that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848). But most of us know a lot more about one of those ...

The life of Friedrich Engels. Since the end of the Cold War, pious hagiographies of the founding fathers of communism have given place to a series of life histories exposing the clay feet of idols ...

Europe had never seen anything like the Revolutions of 1848. Beginning in January of that year, a wave of uprisings (nearly 50 in all) convulsed the continent, creating instability from Paris to ...

In 1884 Friedrich Engels made a remarkable claim in Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State. We are a revolutionary species, he says. We were born in complete equality and fraternity.