# Friedrich Engels German industrialist, philosopher, and co-author (with [[Karl Marx]]) of *The Communist Manifesto* (1848), whose financial support and intellectual partnership made Marx's work possible. Engels contributed foundational texts on the family, private property, and the state, and after Marx's death edited and published the final volumes of *Das Kapital*. Understanding Engels is essential context for the [[Anti-Communism]] that became the binding agent of postwar American conservatism and continues to shape right-wing rhetoric equating any progressive reform with [[Socialism]] or [[Marxism]]. *Stub — expand with: Manchester textile mills experience, The Condition of the Working Class in England, dialectical materialism contributions, posthumous influence on Second International.*