This event has finished Took place on: Thursday, 26th May 2016
Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman. Yet Engels was also the co-founder of international communism - the philosophy which in the 20th century came to control one third of the human race. He was the co-author of The Communist Manifesto, a ruthless party tactician, and the man who sacrificed his best years so Karl Marx could write Das Kapital.
In this talk Tristram Hunt examines the diversity and exuberance of Engels's era: how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his raucous personal life with this uncompromising political philosophy.
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2016-05-26 2016-05-26 Europe/London The Frock Coated Communist: The Life of Friedrich Engels In this talk Tristram Hunt MP examines the diversity and exuberance of Engels's era. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2016/05/26/the-frock-coated-communist-the-life-of-friedrich-engels-90687 ,,, Meeting point to be confirmedWhat else is hapening in London on 26th May 2016