Friedrich Engels

We wish to conclude with a quote by Friedrich Engels, which is as pertinent now as when it was written in 1844:

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

Three era-defining events1848: Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publishedLandmark work lacerating the socially and economically destructive world of capitalism and predicting its replacement by revolutionary socialism and, eventually, communism.1879: Thomas Edison switches on the first light bulbMuch of the world soon switches on with him.

British architecture: Victorian and Edwardian 2011

I'll take refuge in, of all people, Friedrich Engels, who commented that history repeats itself, "once as grand tragedy and the second time as rotten farce."

Carl Pope: The Third-Worst Legislative Act in History Carl Pope 2011

I'll take refuge in, of all people, Friedrich Engels, who commented that history repeats itself, "once as grand tragedy and the second time as rotten farce."

Carl Pope: The Third-Worst Legislative Act in History Carl Pope 2011

Or as Friedrich Engels used to put it: "This time there'll be a dies irae such as has never been seen before… all the propertied classes in the soup, complete bankruptcy of the bourgeoisie, war and profligacy to the nth degree."

Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton – review 2011

The copy dates from 1883 and is believed to have belonged to Friedrich Engels, who penned the original German work with Karl Marx in 1848.

Berlin Library Returning Books Stolen By Nazis 2011

He said that Karl Marx (1818–1883) had left his native land and gone to Paris, where he met Friedrich Engels (1820–1895).

Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

It is the story of all Marx's great loves: Jenny; their six children three died in infancy or childhood; his friend, collaborator and benefactor Friedrich Engels; and only then the proletariat to whom Marx devoted his life's work.

At Home With Karl Marx Jennifer Siegel 2011

He said that Karl Marx (1818–1883) had left his native land and gone to Paris, where he met Friedrich Engels (1820–1895).

Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

The cottages are old, dirty, and of the smallest sort, the streets uneven, fallen into ruts and in part without drains or pavement; masses of refuse, offal and sickening filth lie among standing pools in all directions…This was Friedrich Engels's account of 1840s Manchester, as depicted in The Condition of the Working Class in England.

If we have no history, we have no future | Tristram Hunt 2011