Engels was a German thinker, philosopher, revolutionary, educator, military theorist, great teacher of proletarians and working people all over the world, one of the founders of Marxism.
Engels (November 28, 1820 – August 5, 1895) was a German-Italian nation. He grew up in Barmen, Germany, and grew up in Bremen, Germany. In the second half of the eighteenth century, Engels' great-grandfather founded a textile factory in Bamen, and his grandfather greatly increased the status and prestige of the textile factory. By the time of Engels' father, his family's textile enterprise was already a multinational company. In Bamen, Germany, and in Manchester, England, there are the Ommen-Engels textile companies.
Engels' father was a smart-minded, business-savvy, and capable entrepreneur. He is strict with his children, absolutely obedient, and does not tolerate arguments, which can be said to be a typical patriarch. We can see from the fact that he forced the young Engels to study, inherit his father's business, and engage in "damn business". Although Engels acted according to his father's will, his father still did not like what the eldest son did.
Why is that? Because, Engels was an unmarried, did not believe in religion, never went to church, and made revolutions all day long. This annoyed his father greatly. He stipulated that he would only give his son £200 a month, which could not be exceeded. This was mean for Engels, knowing that most of this money still had to be used to finance Marx.
Later, it was at the request of Engels' mother that Engels was increased from £200 to £265 and from £265 to £300. This was a great help to Engels, and it also helped Marx indirectly.
Engels' mother, Alyssa, was a Dutchman, kind, open-minded, talented, and born into a family of teachers. She loves literature and art, has read Hegel's works, likes Goethe's poems, and has a good cultural literacy. She often took Engels back to Holland to visit her father, Engels' maternal grandfather.
Engels' maternal grandfather, the headmaster of the Holland Holland Hamm High School, was very knowledgeable, proficient in literature and linguistics, and loved children. When Engels was a child, whenever he came to his house, he would tell him many interesting stories of Greek mythology. In Engels' impression, his grandfather was an amiable, humorous and lovely old man.
When he was young, Engels liked to drink with his friends. In the basement hotel of Bremen's City Hall, he and his friends often have uninhibited binge drinking. Like Marx, he was fond of poetry in his youth, but he soon realized that the laurels of poet were not something he could obtain, especially Goethe's advice to young people, which made him feel that the creation of poetry was not suitable for him, and he abandoned his interest in poetry and only used poetry as a tool for recreation.
In September 1843, Engels submitted an article to the German-French Yearbook and sent him the "Outline of the Critique of National Economics" written by him, which for the first time fused German classical philosophy, British classical political economy and French utopian socialist thought, and carried out a comprehensive research and judgment, pointing the spearhead of criticism directly at private ownership in capitalist society.
The reviewer was none other than Marx, who began nearly 40 years of research between the two of them, and co-founded Marxism.
In 1838, Engels' father died, and he should have received a large fortune. However, his younger brother refused to give Engels property on the grounds that Engels had been away for a long time, had "fooled around" with Marx, and had not contributed to the Oumen Company. German law at the time also stipulated that people who had been abroad for a long time could not inherit property. Coupled with the fact that Engels' mother was seriously ill, he renounced his inheritance.
When Engels' mother recovered from her illness, he told her the truth and said: "Nothing in the world can make you grieve in your old age because of family disputes." I'll have hundreds of businesses, but I'll always have one mother. ”
When his mother learned the truth, under her demands and struggles, Engels got 10 million pounds in assets, which is equivalent to 1 ton **. Engels put this property back into Europe. Engels can share 20% of the company's profits every year. This greatly alleviated the need for Marx and Engels to create a theory of the proletarian revolution. It can be said that Engels' mother indirectly made great contributions to the proletarians all over the world!