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The Origins of Communism

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On November 28, 1820, Friedrich Engels was born in Prussia. A radical thinker and revolutionary political theorist, Engels would go on to coauthor one of the most influential political documents in world history: The Communist Manifesto (1848), alongside Karl Marx.

Engels brought firsthand knowledge of industrial capitalism from his family’s textile business and paired it with Marx’s philosophical rigor. Together, they laid the intellectual foundation for a movement that would reshape global geopolitics, economics, and society for over a century.

Their core argument: history is a struggle between classes, and capitalism inevitably contains the seeds of its own destruction.

📌 Why This Matters

Communism is more than just an economic system — it’s an ideological framework that inspired revolutions, governments, and conflicts across the 20th century.

From the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the Cold War, from Maoist China to Cuban socialism, the ideas developed by Marx and Engels have touched nearly every corner of the world.

Even in places where communism failed or was rejected, it forced democracies to adapt, reshaping labor laws, education systems, and welfare policies.

🎯 How Much do you Know about Communism?

💡 Did you know?

• Engels personally funded Marx’s work for decades, allowing him to write Das Kapital while Engels ran a factory in Manchester.

• Though often overshadowed by Marx, Engels was an excellent writer and brilliant political organizer.

• The Communist Manifesto opens with one of the most famous lines in political literature:
  
  “A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.”

To this day, debates over communism stir strong emotions—admiration, fear, curiosity. But no matter the opinion, its impact is undeniable.

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