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(28 November 1820 \u2013 5 August 1895) was a German social scientist,\u00a0author, political theorist,\u00a0philosopher, and father of Marxist theory,\u00a0alongside Karl Marx.\u00a0In 1845 he published The condition of Working Class in England,\u00a0based on personal observations and research. In 1848 he co-authored The Communist Manifesto\u00a0with Karl Marx, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx’s death, Engels edited the second and third volumes. Additionally, Engels organized Marx’s notes on the “Theories of Surplus Value” and this was later published as the “fourth volume” of\u00a0Capital<\/i>.\u00a0He has also made important contributions to family economics.\u00a0 <\/p>\n In the chapter \u201cThe Great Towns\u201d, Engels struggles to analyze under what conditions the people of working class in England of 1840s make a living in the urban district of Manchester. The method the author employs while carrying out his study appears to be peripatetic in the sense that he strives to reveal the horrors of industrial urbanism by merely walking around.\u00a0While conducting a tour in various neighborhoods of proletarian Manchester, he explicitly points out his observations of appalling living conditions of the working class so that he renders his assertions reasonable. According to Engels, there was a connection between the physical decrepitude of the urban infrastructure and the alienation and despair of the urban poor.\u00a0Hence, in The Great Towns, he stresses the \u2018degradation\u2019 of the working class with regard to the \u201chypocritical town planning\u201d in the city of Manchester. From Engels\u2019 perspective, the lack of city planning especially in the great cities under the force of capitalism was organized in such a way that would properly serve the interests of the advantageous class, that is to say the bourgeoisie. Even after his death in 1895, this view has been the prevailing one among the academic milieu. As a consequence, many scholars have attempted to clarify the inner-city development, which was an issue first coined in and identified by Engels.<\/p>\n In The Great\u00a0<\/i>Towns, Engels first introduces to the reader the \u201ctacit agreement\u201d which organizes the streets in order to keep each person on his own side of the pavement.\u00a0This way, he argues, no one delays the opposing streams of the crowd. For Engels, this tacit agreement ultimately isolates the individual in his private interest, in some cases making him become even offensive. Engels indicates that this isolation of the individual, this narrow self-seeking constitute the fundamental principle of society. From Engels\u2019 point of view, this isolation brings about the \u201csocial war\u201d that is the war of each against all. One might refer to this social war as a corollary of the capitalist system because in this war people regard each other as only useful subjects. In this regard, they exploit each other and in the end the stronger acquires for himself a better position.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n REFERENCES:<\/strong><\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friedrich_Engels<\/p>\n http:\/\/faculty.wwu.edu\/zaferan\/472%20engles%20article.pdf<\/p>\n http:\/\/ydemokrat.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/friedrich-engels-condition-of-working.html<\/p>\n <\/p>\n published by:<\/p>\n Fatima Rashid AlNuaimi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by:\u00a0Friedrich Engels. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: (28 November 1820 \u2013 5 August 1895) was a German social scientist,\u00a0author, political theorist,\u00a0philosopher, and father of Marxist theory,\u00a0alongside Karl Marx.\u00a0In 1845 he published The condition of Working Class in England,\u00a0based on personal observations … Continue reading
\n<\/a><\/p>\n” THE GREAT TOWNS” SUMMARY:<\/h1>\n