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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Work rant
I really like my job in a vacuum. I'm the lead of a small team and my boss is really hands off. I'm able to keep things really laid back because of it and I enjoy the work I do.But I also don't have much in the way of actually affecting things and I'm seeing the usual corporate bullshit of cutting costs, both for the company I work with as well as the company contracting it for our services.
I'm closing in on 3 years where I work and we still don't have any efficient way to share information with other teams we have to work with. Our own work website has been a huge pain in the ass to work with.
My team was budgeted for a certain amount of employees, but after one left we never returned to a full crew. When another left we started having turnover issues. Those of us that have been here longterm have barely had a chance to take time off because we don't have enough coverage to keep up with the work we're doing. Yet in spite of all that we've been able to out perform expectations and keep things running smoothly. But we're still running around trying to justify why we need to return to our original team size and pay has been another pain point. Out of all the people that are contracted, we get paid the least. I had to constantly pester my boss to get one of my team members back up to what he was getting paid previously before transferring to this location. The employees that have left have left in large part due to the low pay for the amount of work they do. But the company keeps hiring people at the same level of pay since we started without taking into account the amount of turnover that's occurring.
And now I've got even more BS to deal with because the supplies I use are now going through an additional middle man. And I know I'm going to start hearing about it because its causing issues with our work, but I'm sure that if I call out cost cutting measures it'll be a problem. I honestly don't even really care, just feel bad for the people that I work with that will also have to face more immediate consequences because capitalists are gonna capitalist.