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(1990) Marxian economics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Born in Barmen, the eldest son of a textile manufacturer in Westphalia, Engels (1820–1895) was trained for a merchant's profession. From school onwards however, he developed radical literary ambitions which eventually brought him into contact with the Young Hegelian circle in Berlin in 1841. In 1842, Engels left for England to work in his father's Manchester firm. Already converted by Moses Hess to a belief in "communism" and the imminence of an English social revolution, he used his two-year stay to study the conditions which would bring it about. From this visit, came two works which were to make an important contribution to the formation of Marxian socialism: "Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy" (generally called the "Umrisse") published in 1844 and The Condition of the Working Class in England, published in Leipzig in 1845.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20572-1_23
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Stedman Jones, G. (1990)., Friedrich Engels, in J. Eatwell, M. Milgate & P. Newman (eds.), Marxian economics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 159-164.
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