Friedrich Engels

[[Marxism]].

Marx’s friendship with another fellow-German, Frederick Engles, had the greatest effect on him.

– [[Marx for Beginners]]

The son of a rich textile manufacturer, he left Prussia in the 1842 to work as a business agent for his father’s branch office in [[Manchester]]. Engles was a restless ‘left’ Hegelian anyway, but first-hand contact with working class misery affected him deeply.

– [[Marx for Beginners]]