How Marx became a Marxist
Spectre of Communism
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The Importance of Saint-Sémon
Engels started writing articles from Manchester about the condition of the working class at this time as early as now. His father was a factory owner, and he sent Engels over to Manchester to set him straight effectively. He believed that on that basis you would be able to construct a harmoniously and rationally planned economy without poverty, without oppression, without even a state. But for him, the working class was not as we would describe it. The working class included capitalist bankers because they were aristocrats because they worked. So the working class were people who produce in his eyes. And what he envisaged was an industrial society.
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