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. Engels 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 :england-cool: , 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.
After Marx's death in 1883, Engels became the undisputed leader of German Social Democracy, of the Second International and of world socialism, safeguarding the essentials of Marxism, to which he himself had contributed nuances related to the future disappearance of the State, to the dialectic and the complex relationships between the economic infrastructure and the political, legal and cultural superstructures.
Engels didnt reconcile with the reformist evolution of the revolutionary movement, reissuing the Critique of the Gotha program or The Civil Wars in France and finally publishing the Critique of the (German) social-democratic program of 1891. It thus led to the revision that led to the Erfurt Program, with which he did identify. His collaborator Eduard Bernstein and other leaders led the German Social Democracy towards parliamentary reformism, drawing from Engels' legacy a legitimacy that is denied by another part of the movement, which led to the formation of the Communist parties and the Third International.
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I relate to a lot of what you're saying. I've failed shitloads of classes because I fell behind and I was afraid of asking the professor if I could hand stuff in late, and once I got behind I felt ashamed of myself and I started to assume the professor didn't like me and thought I was lazy, which made it harder for me to motivate myself to go to class, leading to a vicious cycle. I've finally started to get over this, for me it was a combination of having cool professors that approached me and encouraged me to hand in my late work, and also my financial aid eligibility is on a knife's edge from all my past screwups and I've come too far to fail now so that desperation has helped me become a little more shameless.
I'm also terrified of being accidentally rude or offending people in some way, which gives me social anxiety and makes it hard for me to by myself around others. I've been diagnosed with ADHD in the past but for some reason the doctor was hesitant to prescribe me any stimulants like adderal, she wanted to fuck around with anti-depressants instead which didn't really work so I just gave up on having my ADHD treated.
It's so frustrating how some people can just sort of suspect they might have ADHD, walk into a doctor's office and then come home with an adderal prescription, while others like yourself and I who have struggled for years can't even get anyone to give us a proper diagnosis or the medication we need.
After so many years of dealing with the same problems, desperation has lost most of its edge for me unfortunately. In the moment, it just makes me feel like life is an unending slog. I’d lose sleep, stop eating, drive around while I’m on mental autopilot - I end up feeling like laying under a rock forever.
It’s actually ridiculous how hard it is to get people to take a look at me for this. I can understand the hesitancy to prescribe stimulants, but I think I’ve heard experts (like Dr. Barkley) say they’re literally the first line treatment. I’m not even close to that point.
Every medical professional I’ve tried to talk to about ADHD has led me in circles. Buck passing. Making me take the exact same CPT test multiple times (which recent studies suggest it’s bullshit). Then when I fucking asked my psychiatrist if I could have a longer appointment with them (since 15 mins was getting me nowhere), they looked at me confused. “How can I get an evaluation for this?” Blank stare. Then I get Wellbutrin for the symptoms which is like… if you acknowledge there are fucking symptoms then why aren’t we looking into this further???
I look at the adhd sub and so many people have similar stories. Shit cuts through class, race, gender, age, location. Feels like there are only a handful of psychs in this country who are at all informed on the topic and they all cost an arm and a fucking leg to see. That or they just sign off on the pills every time.