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 ...

Reflecting on the contributions of Friedrich Engels on his bicentenary brings three issues to mind. The first issue is, how do we read his writings today? A lot of his writings were polemics against ...

Portrait of a young revolutionary: Friedrich Engels at age 21, in 1842, the year he moved to Manchester–and the year before he met Mary Burns. Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels’ life appears replete ...

Friedrich Engels has been un­deservedly “airbrushed from history,” says historian Tristram Hunt. Though his name is ritually invoked in any discussion of Marxism’s origins, the man and his pioneering ...

Friedrich Engels wasn't born a revolutionary, but over the course of several beer-soaked days in Paris, he became part of "the greatest friendship in Western political thought." Author and historian ...

LONDON/BERLIN/BEIJING - In downtown Manchester, England, frock-coated and bearded Friedrich Engels crosses his arms over the chest, contemplating at the heart of a posh, modern business district. The ...

Dominic Sandbrook thoroughly enjoys an intelligent biography of Marx's friend, reviewing The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt For the Victorians, ...

The 1848 uprisings in Germany put Engels in mind of the last great peasant rebellions of of 1500s. As he would later write: "The parallel between the German Revolution of 1525 and that of 1848-49 was ...

Iconic socialist thinker, Friedrich Engels has returned to Manchester . . . 150 years after he left. As part of the Manchester International Festival, a statue will be officially unveiled of the ...

Engine said the work depicted Engels' "signature magnificent beard as a symbol of wisdom and learning" The "magnificent" beard of socialist thinker Friedrich Engels has inspired a climbing wall ...

A set of commemorative stamps to commemorate Friedrich Engels' 200th birthday Photo: China Philatelic News China Post is scheduled to launch a set of commemorative stamps on November 28 to commemorate ...