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Friedrich Engels

About the Author

Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was a German Socialist and disciple of Karl Marx. After Engels wrote The Condition of the Working Class in Englandin 1844, he came into contact with Karl Marx, and together they collaborated on the dissemination of Communist thought, and on the writing of The Communist Manifesto (1848). He completed volumes 2 and 3 of Das Kapital after Marx’s death in 1883.