{UAH} FRIEDRICH ENGELS STATUE- MANCHESTER, UK

FRIEDRICH ENGELS is the 19th-century Prussian writer, philosopher, and social scientist who collaborated with Karl Marx in developing the theory now known as Dialectical Materialism. Engels had strong links with Manchester. As a young man, in 1842, he was sent to the English city to work in a mill owned by his family. He would spend the best part of the next 30 years in the region, and the city would play a key role in his development as an innovative socialist and economic thinker.It was in Manchester that Engels met his long-time romantic partner Mary Burns. Guided by Mary, he came to fully experience industrial working conditions and the plight of the poorest in society. Manchester subsequently served as the inspiration for researching his first book, THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND..

Engels's writings and studies continued while he lived in the city and carried on working for the family firm. He reportedly enjoyed going out drinking in Manchester and would also invite Karl Marx up from London so that they could collaborate together in Chetham's Library.

In 1848, Engels and Marx co-authored THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO to serve as the platform of the Communist League. The political pamphlet–arguably the most influential in history– became one of the principal programmatic statements of the European socialist and communist parties in the 19th and early 20th centuries.Its ideas, however, reverberated with increasing force into the 20th century, and by 1950 nearly half the world's population lived under Marxist governments.

Despite Engels' prominence in the city's history, however, Manchester didn't have a monument dedicated to its adopted son until recently. The artist Phil Collins remedied the situation in the summer of 2017, but not by sculpting a fresh piece of artwork. Instead, he went East and brought home an unwanted souvenir reckoned to have been crafted in the 1970s..

Standing tall in a public square outside a relatively new performing arts center, the striking Soviet statue brings a touch of personality to an area of modern development, and serves as another monument representing Manchester's radical heritage.

Bobby

Owen Jones

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