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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moaning myrtle was the patricians choice.
CW: mentioning a possible SA aspect of Harry Potter
Why did Rowling include a voyeur named moaning into a child’s book?
Because she's a ghost and ghosts moan and cry and rattle their chains. I don't think it was connected to her being a creep.
I actually never read the entire series 😅 Stopped reading after Goblet of Fire and watched the movies because my family loved them lol
That name was probably just Rowling with her usual hit-or-miss naming conventions. It sounds like a name Roald Dahl would have come up with.
For the best tbh, I heard the movies were good were but hadn’t grown out of the “they changed things” phase lol.
Alliteration would be the most logical, but this is the writer who: named the only Asian character Cho Chang, the Irish character constantly explodes, the list goes on.
Somebody here made a comment at one point about it ties into rowlings terf bathroom obsession.
Was Dahl problematic? James and the Giant Peach ruled. Eating your flying house was mind blowing as a child lol.
The first two are loved for their nostalgia and the third one is genuinely good. After that they ride on the coattails of the series success without putting much effort in. Casting is great though and it's a shame some of them are underused.
Yeah but I do think it's a bit of a stretch. She's also a characters that appears in the second book. Majority of the problematic issues people have with the series started in Goblet of Fire.
Dahl was problematic in his private life but I'm just saying that he liked to come up with silly weird names. Something like moaning Myrtle would have been right up his alley.