Ideologies / Classical Marxist / Friedrich Engels
§ The minds · 1820–1895 · Germany · Theorist
Friedrich Engels
Marx's collaborator
Industry, family, and the state.
Economic−96
SocialistMarket
Governance−46
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+62
TraditionalProgressive
Marx's lifelong collaborator and patron, whose own studies of industrial England and the family grounded Marxism in concrete social reality.
social
Progressive on the family, women, and human origins.
economic
Co-author of the common-ownership programme; studied industrial capitalism first-hand.
governance
Theorised the state's origin — and its eventual dissolution.
Notable for
- 'The Condition of the Working Class in England'
- Co-wrote 'The Communist Manifesto'
- 'Origin of the Family'
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