Engels, Frederick, socialist, born in Barmen on Nov. 28, 1820, the son of a well-to-do manufacturer. Took up commerce, but already at an early age began propagating radical and socialist ideas in newspaper articles and speeches. After working for some time as a clerk in Bremen and serving for one year as an army volunteer in Berlin in 1842, he went for two years to Manchester, where his father was co-owner of a cotton mill.
In 1844 he worked for the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher published by Arnold Ruge and Karl Marx in Paris. In 1844 he returned to Barmen and in 1845 addressed communist meetings organised by Moses Hess and Gustav K?ttgen in Elberfeld. Then, until 1848, he lived alternately in Brussels and Paris; in 1846 he joined, with Marx, the secret Communist League, a predecessor of the International, and represented the Paris communities at the two League congresses in London in 1847. On the League's instructions, he wrote, jointly with Marx, the Communist Manifesto addressed to the "working men of all countries", which was published shortly before the February revolution [1848] (a new edition appeared in Leipzig in 1872).
In 1848 and 1849 E. worked in Cologne for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung edited by Marx, and after its suppression he contributed, in 1850, to the Politisch-oekonomische Revue. He witnessed the uprisings in Elberfeld, the Palatinate and Baden and took part in the Baden-Palatinate campaign as aide-de-camp in Willich's volunteer corps. After the suppression of the Baden uprising E. returned as a refugee to England and re-entered his father's firm in Manchester in 1850.
He retired from business in 1869 and has lived in London since 1870. He assisted his friend Marx in providing support for the international labour movement, which arose in 1864, and in carrying on social-democratic propaganda. E. was Secretary for Italy, Spain and Portugal on the General Council of the International. He advocates Marxian communism in opposition to both "petty bourgeois" Proudhonist and nihilistic Bakuninist anarchism. His main work is The Condition of the Working-Class in England (Leipzig, 1845; new edition, Stuttgart, 1892), which, although one-sided, possesses undeniable scientific value. His Anti-Dühring is a polemic of considerable size (2nd ed. Zurich, 1886). E.'s other published works include Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (Stuttgart, 1888), The Origin of the Family Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (4th ed., Berlin, 1891). E. also published Vols 2 and 3 of Karl Marx's Capital and the 3rd and 4th editions of Vol. I, and contributed many articles to the Neue Zeit.
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Finally actually went bra shopping, I've been putting that off for a while but it's to the point where I can't just wear a t-shirt by itself out in public without looks
The sizing is hella confusing though. I think I'm a 40B but idk if I measured that right. I took measurements with the advice of my sister, then did it myself, then tried an online calculator, and got slightly different results each time. I'm almost certain I'm a 40 but I might either be an A or a B. I bought a B though because the website I was buying off of didn't sell one in size 40A plus I'd rather buy one that's slightly too big than one that's slightly too small, only time will tell if it will fit me
Trying to learn womanhood mostly on my own is really fucking difficult and kind of dysphoric inducing, I'm going to feel like real shit if it turns out I completely fucked up the measurements. Even if there's pain it's still really rewarding though, I'm like finally decently happy with my body for the first time in my entire life and things are only getting better. No matter how people treat me or what I go through I'm happy to be a trans woman and I wouldn't change that about me even if I could
Sister sizes - or whatever the fuck they're called - works too. You can go down a cup by adding 2 to your band size if you think it's too floppy. But fwiw having an extra cup size just makes your boobs look bigger so probably better to have the bigger one if you wanna have a more curvy femme figure I guess.
Buying my first bras was a pain in the ass for me too cause they don't really make bras for tall women with small boobs lol, especially earlier hrt when they haven't fully grown. I had a small bralette for a while that worked fine!
I have this idea for a bra making scheme where you go to a shop, they measure you, then you stand in a booth and get 3d scanned, and then they use that info to make a custom fitted bra and mail it to you. I cannot believe nothing like that exists. Everyone i know who wears bras describes finding ones that fit well as a miserable process. : (