When Engels died in 1895, he eschewed London's Highgate cemetery where his friend was laid to rest.
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Engels was the co-author with Karl Marx of The Communist Manifesto in 1848.
Engels joined the club when he arrived to work in Manchester in 1842.
Minsk can feel like a time warp: Main avenues in the capital are still named after Lenin, Marx and Engels.
Social inequality has been studied ever since Friedrich Engels wrote in 1844 about the conditions of the English working classes.
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Engels needed to believe in a time when the Communist utopia had been, and could again be, reconciled with human nature.
People might start to assume, wrongly, that capitalism and foul living conditions are natural bedfellows, just as Engels did last century.
For the next 20 years Engels worked grumpily away, handing over half his generous income to an ever more demanding Marx.
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Remember Friedrich Engels's description of the rigours of life in 19th-century London?
The fervor for reform in America today shares in the same spirit of class struggle that inspired Marx and Engels in the 1840s.
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Inevitably there were lots of loose ends which Engels tied up as he saw fit, and sometimes the results were more revolutionary than the author may have intended.
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In 1992 he became Russia's prime minister, and control of Gazprom was assumed by his deputy, Rem Vyakhirev, a chain-smoking Soviet-style bureaucrat, whose first name stood for Revolution, Engels, Marx.
Others, including Pirate Party co-chairman Gregory Engels, seem to prefer the idea of a low-Earth-orbit satellite that would be harder to launch but easier to keep airborne than a slowly-deflating balloon.
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The town's name had been changed from Boronsk to Marx to Pokrovsk and then to Engels the name of Marx's German collaborator being thought appropriate for the capital city of the Volga Germans.
Engels's sacrifices continued after Marx's death.
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Tall and handsome, Engels had a taste not just for ideas but for the good life wine, women, riding with the Cheshire hunt and seems to have felt little sense of irony that all these things were paid for by the proletariat's back-breaking labour.
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But for every nearly forgotten Herbert Spencer who tried to rebuild a free-market public consensus on survival of the fittest, there were more Marxes, Engels, Shaws and Keynes who were more gifted propagandists and more ambitious candidates for the newly vacated office of god-man.
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The production, created for the Welsh National Opera, was abstract and minimalist: Johan Engels's design featured a semicircle of dark bleachers and a forest of tilted black crosses that appeared intermittently, representing trees or pillars, and serving as a reminder of the overwhelming power of the Catholic Church.
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