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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I wasnt under the impression we get a lot of car enthusiasts on hexbear.
A recent example was @[email protected] and also (to a lesser degree) @[email protected] defending right turn on red in this thread https://hexbear.net/comment/4303212 but hexbear also has an entire https://hexbear.net/c/cars community
I honestly dont even know what a right turn on red means. I never owned a car/never will. I dont even own a drivers license. I walk everywhere or use public transport. Didnt know we had a car com. With all that said I dont care much about cars. Less of them would certainly be nice but im not holding my breath.
Hej. I saw I got tagged. Usually when the light is red you can't go. In places where right on red is legal if you're in the right most lane and the light is red, and it's "Safe", you can make a right turn in to the perpendicular street without waiting for the light to turn green. In theory this keeps traffic moving, but idk if it really works. As many people have pointed out, this is a very dangerous manuever - You need to look left to see oncoming traffic while turning right, meaning you're not looking at bikes coming up in the bike lane or pedestrians crossing the street.
As mentioned in my posts on the topic, idk if it actually helps traffic at all. I think it might alleviate some of the traffic slow down caused by bad street layout and light timing, but I'm 100% open to being wrong on that. Mostly it's just something I've always taken for granted and never seriously considered. Cars delende est.
Yeah, that's why I say to a lesser degree. I'm willing to give fellow hexbears more benefit of the doubt than federated users.
Traffic slowdown is good, actually. The current road design emphasis on traffic flow is profoundly harmful both in terms of direct danger to those of us outside cars and to the structure of our cities.
I agree that from a safety perspective traffic slowdown is good. I'm staying somewhere where the stroads off residential neighborhoods are 50 MPH. They should be thirty at most, and there are no crosswalks with lights on a 1km+ stretch. The other side, though, is it runs up against the mandatory car dependency in the US, where more time spent in traffic is less time for everything else. : p All I can say is I hate car culture and car-driven urban planning. One of many cases where there's absolutely no justifiable reason for things to be this bad.
Measures which make the roads safer for cyclists and pedestrians at the cost of inconveniencing cars directly work against car dependency. I don't want to hear about "mandatory," get a damn ebike or something.
I have a couple of disabilities that preclude using a bike for chores, live in an environment where the temperature regularly drops below freezing, and cannot afford an e-bike.
I don't know the nature of your disabilities, but there are many types of micromobility vehicles, sitting scooters, standing scooters, electric unicycles, recumbent bikes and trikes, etc. I also live in an environment where the temperature regularly drops below freezing and snows, and I ride my electric unicycle through it all. If you can afford a car, you can afford any kind of micromobility vehicle you can think of.
Right turn on red is one of the primary reasons cars will pull into and drive through crosswalks you're using as a pedestrian, it is a danger to you and to me and to everyone who has to exist around cars.