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International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, ed. Immanuel Ness, Blackwell Publishing, 2009, pp. 1091–1092 Engels, Friedrich (1820–1895) 1091 Engels, Friedrich (1820–1895) Heidi M.

Rimke Friedrich Engels was a nineteenth-century revolutionary who, along with collaborator Karl Marx, articulated the theory of communism in their 1848 work, The Communist Manifesto. To Engels, the capitalist system needed to be overthrown by a revolution from the proletariat, which would subsequently establish a classless society, thereby ending exploitation and misery.

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Engels was born in 1820 in Barmen-Elberfeld, in the Rhine province of Prussia (now Germany), the eldest son of a prosperous textile family. He was raised in a pious Protestant environment both at home and in school, but he rejected religion as a teenager.

In 1838, without finishing school, Engels was sent to Bremen for business training as an unsalaried clerk. From 1841 to 1842 he served in the Househ