Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels was a German entrepreneur, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and together with Karl Marx, father of Marxism. He is most famous for The Communist Manifesto which he co-wrote with Marx and was first published on 21 February 1848. In 1849, Engels took part in a failed armed uprising in South Germany, after which he fled to England where he lived for the rest of his life. After Marx's death in 1883, Engels devoted his time to editing Marx's unfinished volumes of Capital and became the editor and translator of Marx’s writings.

Although Engels is must famous as Marx’s co-writer, researcher and friend, he also wrote a number of books by himself: The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1844), The Peasant War in Germany (1850), Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany (1852), Anti-Dühring (1878), Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880), Dialectics of Nature (1883), The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884), Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (1886)

In these books, Engels argued that a relationship based on property rights and forced monogamy will only lead to the proliferation of immorality and prostitution. Also, a future communist society would allow people to make decisions about their relationships free from economic constraints.