Tag Archives | Friedrich Engels

Damning imperialism: Marx’s writing on China

Originally published: Morning Star on January 2022 by Nick Mathews (more by Morning Star) | (Posted Jan 17, 2022)

Working for the ‘New York Daily Tribune’, Marx excoriated the British empire’s opium trade that brought China under its influence with a staggering human cost, writes NICK MATTHEWS.
The condition of the working class

Originally published: Films for Change on Michael Wayne & Deirdre O'Neill by Michael Wayne & Deirdre O'Neill (more by Films for Change) (Posted Oct 12, 2021)

Everything changes and yet everything stays the same.
Engels and entropy

Originally published: The National Center for Science Education on October 2, 2013 by Glenn Branch (more by The National Center for Science Education) | (Posted Sep 24, 2021)

When it comes to rejecting the Second Law of Thermodynamics, only fools would rush in where Engels feared to tread.
Engels and marriage

Originally published: Socialist Voice on November 2, 2020 by Jenny Farrell (more by Socialist Voice) | (Posted Nov 06, 2020)

Friedrich Engels, whose 200th birthday falls on 28 November, had a very personal connection with Ireland. Soon after being sent to help run the family textile factory in Manchester in 1842 he met twenty-year-old Mary Burns, daughter of an Irish dyer.