The Life and Thought of Friedrich Engels : Palgrave Macmillan : 9783030492595 : 3030492591 : 01 Sep 2020 : Worldwide political changes since 1990 have driven a re-evaluation of Marxism, a renaissance in Marx-studies, and a renewed interest in his lifelong intellectual partner and personal friend Friedrich Engels. In Terrell Carver's 30th anniversary edition of his pioneering biographical study of the ?junior partner' ? which still remains the only one to balance Engels's pre-Marx, with-Marx, and post-Marx writings, giving a rounded view of his life and thought ? Carver adopts a comparative and critical approach, neither taking the ?perfect partnership' as a given, nor presuming that all the intellectual fireworks were Marx's. Engels's famously ?bourgeois' class position and ?champagne socialist' lifestyle emerge as resolutions rather than contradictions ? they provided opportunities for activist writing and politicking that would not otherwise occur. This study is driven by questions t