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From an early age Engels was a political animal, determined to make his mark. For him politics was not a remunerative career — his financial needs were almost entirely met, one way or another, through his family — yet communist politics was his life’s work. In that work he faced two major disjunctions.
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© 1990 Terrell Foster Carver
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Carver, T. (1990). Continental Communist. In: Friedrich Engels. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20403-8_6
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