Engels collaborated with Karl Marx in
marketing Marxism, drawing up the
Communist Manifesto together.
Being rich in his latter years sits oddly with a presumptive sympathy for the working class.
Ditto for fox hunting.
See e.g.
Engels, the Red who rode to hounds. He followed the
Cheshire Hounds, a most superior
hunt, one founded in 1763. Thus he kept company with
Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster,
George Cholmondeley, 2nd Marquess of Cholmondeley et al; not men one suspects of revolutionary
tendencies. Could the co-author of the
Communist Manifesto possibly be a Capitalist
Swine? It seems not; in his book,
Conditions of the Working-Class in England he tells us passionately about
The Attitude of the Bourgeoisie Towards the Proletariat. He is not an
admirer, far from it. He seems to been in England for 20 months [
FRIEDRICH ENGELS IN
SALFORD ] and went to see for himself. Things were grim for the working man.
He saw the ugly reality.
PS Friedrich may be responsible for the bright idea of
False Consciousness; effectively the claim
that we are too stupid to know what is good for us. He also thought that the
forcible overthrow of
the Communist Manifesto was going to lead
to a
Withering
away of the state and an
end of the exploitation of man by man. Was he naive, well meaning, ignorant
of human nature or stupid? No The Wiki says he was vicious; see
ruthless party tactician et seq.
Friedrich Engels ex Wiki Friedrich (Frederick) Engels was born on 28 November 1820 in
Barmen,
Prussia (now
Wuppertal, Germany).[2]
At the time, Barmen was an expanding industrial metropole and Frederick was
the eldest son of a wealthy German cotton manufacturer. His father,
Friederich [ sic ], Sr., was an evangelical.[3]
Accordingly, Engels was raised Christian
Pietist......... In 1841, Engels joined the
Prussian Army as a member of the Household Artillery. This position
moved him to Berlin where he attended university lectures and began to
associate with groups of
Young Hegelians. He anonymously published articles in the
Rheinische Zeitung exposing the employment and living conditions
that factory workers had to endure.[9]
Editor of the
Rheinische Zeitung was Karl Marx........ Engels is commonly known as a "ruthless party tactician", "brutal
ideologue", and "master tactician" when it came to purging rivals in
political organizations. However, another strand of Engels's personality was
one of a "gregarious", "bighearted", and "jovial man of outsize appetites",
who was referred to by his son-in-law as "the great beheader of champagne
bottles."[24]
His interests included poetry,
fox
hunting, and hosting regular Sunday parties for London's left-wing
intelligentsia where, as one regular put it, "no one left before 2 or 3
in the morning." His stated personal motto was "take it easy", while
"jollity" was listed as his favorite virtue.[84]
QUOTE
Friedrich
Engels
( 28
November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German
social scientist, author,
political theorist, philosopher, and father of
Marxist
theory, alongside
Karl Marx. In 1845 he published
The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal
observations and research. In 1848 he co-authored
The Communist Manifesto with
Karl Marx, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write
Das Kapital. After Marx's death Engels edited the second and third
volumes. Additionally, Engels organized Marx's notes on the "Theories of
Surplus Value" and this was later published as the "fourth volume" of
Capital.[1]
He has also made important contributions to
family economics.
UNQUOTE
A fox hunting man as well as everything else.