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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  • Othello [comrade/them, love/loves]
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    7 months ago

    yall is not aave, frankly its weird that their are people who dont say yall, its such a usefull word. "you all" too long! "you guys" is nonsensically gendered. yall, rolls of the tongue smooth, elegant. im saying im pro yall for all.

    • KittyBobo [he/him, comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      That's just what people say in the southern US, I've heard it all my life and only recently have I seen people say it's specifically AAVE.

      I think the key that no one wants to discuss is how you pronounce the word motherfucker after the word y'all. That's what determines if you're appropriating AAVE or not.

      • Othello [comrade/them, love/loves]
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        7 months ago

        yeah i feel like this is some new thing in the minds of white people from the north, everyone says yall around here. yes the pronunciation is key here. like are you saying it regular or with some weird blaccent.

    • Stoatmilk [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      But it sounds like I'm doing an impression of a cowboy when I say it :(

    • Mokey [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      I dont care what the internet has to say about yall, its like saying cool is aave, and it absolutely is, therefore white people cant say it

      I think its just more telling that you live in crackerland yourself when you scold for saying yall. Yes the people around you do not say yall, they eat with no seasonings, support ukraine with flags on their house, and wearing hiking boots everywhere

      • Othello [comrade/them, love/loves]
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        7 months ago

        hexbear is the first place ive ever seen yall called aave. im against white people useing aave wrong or changing the meaning, like with woke, karen, pick me, especially if they change the meaning to fit their political agenda slash worldview like all those examples. yall cant fuck up yall if yall tried lol.

            • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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              7 months ago

              From what i remember, this whole thing started between someone from Texas and someone from Atlanta, too. Then the Appalachians showed up. It went across probably 4 different groups. Leftbook was dumb as hell sometimes.

                • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  7 months ago

                  This same group of people got duped by a literal us navy intelligence officer because they used the right language, wrote with authority, and cried to the mods to ban people who caught on. We're not talking about the most critically thinking bunch.

        • Mokey [none/use name]
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          7 months ago

          We could absolutely fuck up yall, it could happen. Im waiting for white people to learn about chickpeas.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            7 months ago

            We know about chickpeas we appropriated hummus like ten years ago. It gives me no pleasure to inform you...

          • Othello [comrade/them, love/loves]
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            edit-2
            7 months ago

            i underestimate them and lolol they better not, theyll jack up the price!! remember when they discovered okra for a year? doubled the price.

      • blight [any]
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        7 months ago

        wearing hiking boots everywhere

        first of all, how dare you

        second of all, i only own one pair of winter shoes so they better be all-purpose, i may be white but in this case i'm primarily poor

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      People love to say that southern things are black things. It's only a matter of time before watching quilting shows, eating at waffle house and living in Dekalb County are appropriative.