Friedrich Engels: Co-Founder and Organizer of Marxism

Friedrich Engels

German-born philosopher, economist, socialist theorist, revolutionary, and journalist. Known as Karl Marx's most important collaborator, he developed modern socialist and communist thought together with Marx. He co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Marx and authored works such as The Condition of the Working Class in England, Anti-Dühring, and The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Using the income he earned as a businessman, he financially supported Marx's research activities for many years, and after Marx's death, he edited and published Volumes 2 and 3 of Das Kapital. He was also a revolutionary who actively participated in the Revolutions of 1848 and the German revolutionary movement of 1849.

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Year	Friedrich Engels
1820	Birth of Friedrich Engels (Period: November 28, 1820, Location: Wuppertal, Germany (then Barmen))
1838	Commercial Activities and Ideological Studies in Bremen (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1838–1841, Location: Bremen, Germany)
1841	Military Service in Berlin and Contact with the Young Hegelians (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1841–1842, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1842	Working-Class Studies in Manchester (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1842–1844, Location: Manchester, UK)
1844	Reunion with Marx and Beginning of Joint Research (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1844, Location: Paris, France)
1845	Publication of The Condition of the Working Class in England (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1845, Location: Leipzig, Germany)
1846	Establishment of the Communist Correspondence Committee (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1846, Location: Brussels, Belgium)
1847	Writing the Communist Manifesto (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1847–1848, Location: Brussels, Belgium and London, UK)
1848	German Revolutions of 1848 (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1848–1849, Location: German States, Especially Cologne, Rhineland, Baden, and Palatinate) Activities at the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1848–1849, Location: Cologne, Germany)
1849	Exile to London (Friedrich Engels, Age: 28 years old, Period: 1849–1850, Location: London, UK) Elberfeld Uprising (Age: 28 years old, Period: May 1849, Location: Elberfeld, Germany (Present-day Wuppertal)) Baden-Palatinate Revolutionary War (Age: 28 years old, Period: June–July 1849, Location: Baden and Palatinate Regions, Germany)
1850	Business Activities in Manchester and Financial Support for Marx (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1850–1869, Location: Manchester, UK)
1852	Cologne Communist Trial (Age: 31 years old, Period: October–November 1852, Location: Cologne, Germany)
1861	American Civil War (Age: 40 years old, Period: 1861–1865, Location: United States of America)
1864	Participation in the International Workingmen's Association (Age: 43 years old, Period: c. 1864–1872, Location: Europe, Centered around London, UK)
1870	Franco-Prussian War (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1870–1871, Location: France, Germany, etc.) Re-relocation to London (Friedrich Engels, Age: 49 years old, Period: 1870, Location: London, UK)
1871	Paris Commune (Age: 50 years old, Period: March–May 1871, Location: Paris, France)
1878	Publication of Anti-Dühring (Age: 57 years old, Period: 1878, Location: Leipzig, Germany) Marriage (Friedrich Engels, Lizzie Burns, Age: 57 years old, Period: September 11, 1878, Location: London, UK)
1880	Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Age: 59 years old, Period: 1880, Location: Zurich, Germany etc.)
1883	Editing Capital after Marx's Death (Age: 62 years old, Period: 1883–1894, Location: London, UK)
1884	Publication of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Age: 63 years old, Period: 1884, Location: Zurich, Germany)
1889	Influence on the Second International (Age: 68 years old, Period: 1889–1895, Location: European Countries, Especially Paris, France etc.)
1895	Death of Friedrich Engels (Age: 74 years old, Period: August 5, 1895)

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liberalism	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Ernst Moritz Arndt Friedrich Ludwig Weidig Georg Büchner Friedrich Hecker Gustav Struve Robert Blum
German Empire	Otto von Bismarck Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Helmuth von Moltke Albrecht von Roon Albrecht von Bismarck Friedrich Wilhelm IV Friedrich III Leo von Caprivi
Musical Revolution	Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Johannes Brahms Felix Mendelssohn Robert Alexander Schumann Richard Wagner Anton Bruckner Johann Baptist Strauss
Marxism	Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Ferdinand Lassalle August Bebel Eduard Bernstein Wilhelm Liebknecht Clara Zetkin

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