"That the Materialistic Socialists will improve H. [History] for the poor. Their best writer, Engels, made known the errors and the horrors of our Factory System."
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Lord Acton, quoted in Gertrude Himmelfarb, Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics (1952), pp. 181–82
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Friedrich Engels
1820 – 1895
deutscher Politiker, Ă–konom, Philosoph, MitbegrĂĽnder des Kommunismus und Sozialist
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