HE UNDERSTOOD EARLIER THAN MARX THE CENTRALITY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
Marcello Musto
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2020-11-28 11:24
Friedrich Engels understood even earlier than Karl Marx the centrality of the critique of political economy. When the two first got to know each other, he had published many more articles – although it was his friend who was destined to become world-famous in this domain. Born in Germany 200 years ago, November 28, 1820, in Barmen (today suburb of Wuppertal), he was a very promising young man, whose father, a textile industrialist, had denied a chance to study at university and directed into his own firm. Engels had therefore taught himself, with a voracious appetite for knowledge, and he signed his pieces with a pseudonym to avoid conflict with his conservative, strongly religious family.