Today is the 200th anniversary of our comrade Friedrich Engels and I would like to pay a brief compliment, as all the other comrades are doing.

Engels was born within the bourgeoisie and proudly broke with the interests of his social class to develop a revolutionary theory for decades of a dialectic friendship with his comrade Marx.

Comrade Engels was not just Marx’s “sidekick”. It was Engels who presented books on English political economy to Marx, for instance. Both Marx and Engels were complementary to each other, and what stands out in comrade Engels is his seriousness and commitment to science and human development.

The first volume of Capital was written and edited with Engels’ immense contribution, both financial and theoretical. When Marx died, he had not published the other two volumes of Capital, and it was up to his comrade Engels to review Marx’s drafts, edit them, review them and publish them.

Engels, instead of publishing his own works, dedicated his last years of life to editing and publishing the other two volumes of his comrade Marx’s Capital, a gesture of altruism not only towards his friend’s work, but also towards the international proletariat.

Here are works by Engels that I highly recommend reading:

• Principles of Communism
• Socialism: utopian and scientific
• Dialectics of nature
• Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of classic German philosophy
• Anti-Dühring

Time will be unable to desecrate the memory of Marx and Engels, for their contributions to philosophy and science are one of the most valuable relics that humanity has created. May we modern communists do justice to their judicious love of the sciences, knowledge, and workers around the world.

LONG LIVE COMRADE ENGELS!

LONG LIVE THE SCIENCE OF THE PROLETARIAT!