1. Friedrich Engels
... became so interested in the outside world that he boasted to his sister to know almost twenty four languages! After first embracing some banned literary works, he soon after rejected them as undisciplined and inconclusive. Engels then turned his attention and embraced the philosophy of the "Young Hegelians-, who ... up and announce to whoever would listen that "The emancipation of the workers must be the act of the working class itself."" (The Collected Works of Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 2, 1896) Although Engels did not see a complete turnaround of how the "working class- was being treated w...
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