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Engels

noun

Socialist who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895). Synonym: Friedrich Engels.

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... themselves when they connect their economic history with Darwin's work. Thanks to this unifying hypothesis, they claim to have constructed—as Marx does in his preface to Das Kapital—a veritable natural history of social evolution. Engels speaks in praise of his friend Marx as having discovered the true mainspring of history hidden under the veil of idealism and sentimentalism, and as having proclaimed in the primum vivere the inevitableness ...

— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel

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... how Marx and Engels, in their polemics against the anarchists, explained most thoroughly their views on the relation of the revolution to the State. Engels, when editing in 1891, Marx's Criticism of the Gotha Program, wrote that 'we'—that is, Engels ...

— Anarchism and Socialism • George Plechanoff

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... and so came overproduction and unemployment, panics and crises; so came wars for foreign markets—with new opportunities of plunder for the exploiters and new hardships and new taxes for the producers. And so was fulfilled the prophecy of Marx and Engels; under the pressure of bitter necessity the proletariat was organizing and disciplining itself, training its own leaders and thinkers forming itself into a world-wide political party, whose destiny it was to conquer the ...

— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair

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Words linked to "Engels" : Friedrich Engels, socialist