Friedrich Engels

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Friedrich Engels

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He was a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, together with Karl Marx.

  • When was
    Friedrich Engels born?

    Friedrich Engels was born on Tuesday, November 28, 1820

  • Where was
    Friedrich Engels born?

    Friedrich Engels was born in Barmen, Provce of Jlich-Cleves-Berg, Prussia [now Wuppertal, North Rhe-Westphalia, Germany]

  • How old was
    Friedrich Engels when they died?

    Friedrich Engels was 75

  • When did Friedrich Engels die?

    Friedrich Engels died on
    Monday, August 5, 1895


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  • Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
  • The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
  • An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
  • People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

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