According to the historical materialism of Marx Engels, it was argued that capitalism by the bourgeoisie would be overthrown by the proletariat revolution triggered by economic depression.

Therefore, economic recession is essential to the revolution. Without it, nothing can begin.

However, this was not the case, as the revolution would naturally come as long as there was an economic recession, and they were eagerly awaiting this situation.

However, the long-awaited economic recession came, and the results were quite different from what they had expected!

Marx was a voracious reader. Holed up in the British Museum Library, Marx dove into a sea of books...

He writes a manuscript, tears it up, writes it down, tears it up again, and just when you think he's come up with something, he dives back into the world of books and gets lost in another digression....

It is no wonder that Engels, who is waiting for the manuscript, is so saddened by this...he is the very editor who is pushed around by the writers who don't send in their manuscripts.

However, it was a great experience for me to learn about Marx's genius and madness.

Engels went to work for his father's cotton mill and took a high salary of 300 pounds from his starting salary and later became a high earner with an annual income of 1,000 pounds. In terms of today's monetary value, this amounts to about 15 million yen.

And the financial aid Marx received from him is said to have been at least 45 million yen over a period of 20 years. Why did Marx still suffer from poverty? That's what we will look at in this article.

The awkward truth is that Engels's rich income was a direct result of his exploitation of the Manchester proletariat's labor force."

The very evils he and Marx condemned in such detail were financing their lifestyle and philosophy."

Engels worked for his father's company and sent the money to Marx. The contradiction that two people who were attacking capitalists for exploiting workers were living exactly that way is discussed in the section you are about to read.

After the French February Revolution, both Marx and Engels were hunted as political prisoners.

そこでマルクスは政治犯でも受け入れてくれるイギリスを亡命先として選ぶことになります。

Engels also followed Marx to England.

Engels' decision was also a surprise. After all, he had the nerve to ignore contradictions.

Marx Engels, who had been waiting for the revolution, was in Brussels and could not be present, but they are eagerly engaged in political activities for the proletariat revolution that will come as an inevitable part of history.

However, the revolutions that took place throughout Europe in the wake of the French February Revolution of 1848 began to take a very different turn than Marx Engels had anticipated.

今回の記事で紹介する箇所はマルクス主義を考える上で非常に重要な問題を提起していると思います。

マルクスは何のために共産主義を説いたのか。

本当に貧しい人を救うためだったのか。

なぜマルクスやエンゲルスは自説とは矛盾した行動を取り続けたのか。

こうしたことを考える上でも今回の箇所は私にとっても非常に大きなものになりました。

"A specter haunts Europe-the specter of communism."

Workers of all nations, unite!"

という言葉で有名なマルクス・エンゲルスの『共産主義者宣言（共産党宣言）』ですが、実は発刊当時はほとんど反響がありませんでした。

This article looks at how this famous work, one of the most read books of the 20th century, came to be.

At the end of my last article, I mentioned that Engels' ideal was that he wanted workers to be poorer and at the bottom of the barrel.

I also told you that I was uncomfortable with the way Marx Engels showed passages that seemed to rejoice the worse people's lives became.

Are they really working for the workers? They will continue to act in ways that make us think so. One example of such behavior is shown in the following passage.