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Friedrich Engels (IPA-de????ls; 28 November 1820 - 5 August 1895) was a German social scientist (social science), author, political theorist, philosopher (philosophy), and father of communist theory (communism), alongside Karl Marx. Together they produced The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Engels also edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marxs death.
Region: Western Philosophy
Era: 19th-century philosophy
Date of birth: 1820-11-28
Birth Location: Wuppertal, Barmen, Prussia
Date of death: 1895-08-05
Death Location: London, England
School Tradition: Marxism
Main Interests: Political philosophy, Politics, Economics, class struggle, capitalism
Influences: Kant (Immanuel Kant), Hegel (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel), Feuerbach (Ludwig Feuerbach), Stirner (Max Stirner), Smith (Adam Smith), Ricardo (David Ricardo), Rousseau (Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Goethe, Fourier (Charles Fourier), Hess (Moses Hess), Morgan (Lewis H. Morgan)
Influenced: Luxemburg (Rosa Luxemburg), Lenin (Vladimir Lenin), Trotsky (Leon Trotsky), Mao (Mao Zedong), Guevara (Che Guevara), Sartre (Jean-Paul Sartre), Debord (Guy Debord), Frankfurt School, Negri (Antonio Negri), more... (List of Marxists)
Notable Ideas: Co-founder of Marxism (with Karl Marx), alienation (Marx's theory of alienation) and exploitation of the worker, historical materialism