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Dedicated to the 150'th birthday of Friedrich Engels

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You can see I was painted when I was furious

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The cigar wouldn't puff, you see.

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THE YOUNG FRIEDRICH ENGELS
a portrait in letters

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Soyuzmultfilm, Moscow &
DEFA animation, Dresden

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written by Klaus & Katya Georgy,
script editors R. Thomas, Arcady Snessarev
Consultants Kh. Ulrich, G Skambraks, N. Belousova

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art directors:
Vadim Kurchevsky, Vladimir Nahumov
Music V. Pich, Narrator M Wagner (or V. Tatarsky)

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animators: Maria Motruk,
T. Kazantseva, Youry Klepatsky, M. Henke

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cutter A. Yuve, Sound H Filipi
camera M. Henke, V. Bensch
executive producer Joseph Boyarsky, G Hammer

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Direction: Klaus Georgi, Fyodor Khitruk, 
Katja Georgi, Vadim Kurchevsky 

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In summer of 1838 Friedrich Engels, 
son of the manufacturer Friedrich Engels, 
traveled from Barmen (Wuppertal) to Bremen.

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to start a mercantile education
at the trading house Leupold.

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Friedrich Engels was 17 at the time.

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The film is based on letter and drawing of the young Engels

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Cari amici (dear friends)!
One misses you a lot.

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Now one has to do with letters 
- it's infamous. 

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Here's a drawing, in a popular-book style
clearly showing me looking out for your letters.

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Postman: Consul, sir, a letter for you!

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Consul Leupold: A-ha, good.

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Engels: None for me?

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Postman: No!

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Five hundred boxes of sugar sold, thus,
250 000 pounds sold...

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mm... a pound of coffee costs...
nine-and-a-half...which sums up to...
four silver groat, eight pfennig...

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123..stroke...

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In front of my desk there is a
big window so I can see everything precisely. 

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I'm drawing you the church as can be seen from the office.

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Here in Bremen the merchants’ houses
are all built in a very peculiar way.
The roofs stand close together like this.

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This is a scene from the street.
where the cargo is being unloaded.

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Interesting fellows, aren't they?

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But old Roland, emblem of the city, is the best.

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I've just returned from the
daily parade on great square.

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The big Hansean army make their exercise there.
About forty soldiers.

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The soldiers come out, form lines,

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present their weapon and leave again.

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Yesterday such a Hansean was brought in who had deserted.

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Now he probably will get sixty lashes.
Soldiers here always get lashed.

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Oh, the boss is coming!...
Five sacks of coffee, seventeen sack of sugar....

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A broker has just come in. 
He's called Jan Krusbecker
I'll draw him for you.

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There he is. He has eyes like rockets and
an always half-melancholy, half-smiling air.

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This is an old wine merchant tasting sour wine.

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Next is the sales agent providing him this sourness.

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This old lad, dead drunk every morning, yells:

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Ik bin Burger, Ik bin burger 
which means - I am a citizen.

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Engels to the theology students 
Wilhelm and Friedrich Graeber in Barmen

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Carissimi! In vostras epistolers haec
vobis sit respondentia. (My dearest ones,
let this be an answer to your letters.)

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Enough. No more Latin.

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Anyway, the best thing here is
there are a lot of foreign newspapers.

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Seizing the opportunity
I learned Turkish and Japanese.

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Thus I know twenty five languages and I as I write
a multilingual letter.

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I will take now the English language

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No, better my beloved Italian...
Dolce Suave come el Saphiro

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and Spanish....
Langue come viento en los Arbores

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and Dutch.... Gelijk den damp
uut einer pijp tobac sehr genüglik

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A new newspaper
"The Bremer Stattbote" just came out.

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It has a walking fellow on the first page.
He looks like this.

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Any nonsense is being printed in this Stattbote
so I write poems at the office that mockingly praise it.

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but it then earnestly publishes them.

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Going on. First I used black ink,
now there will be red.

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So, to talk about something important now
...my Spanish ballad failed.

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I have more and more doubts
about my poetry and its potential each day.

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Nevertheless, I will continue rhyming.

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I can't sleep at night
ridden by ideas of this century.

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I've read ways of expressing here,
that wouldn't be aloud in print with us
quit liberal ideas etc..

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Especially about the old Hannover goat
king Ernst August...Lovely!

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My side-street is haunted from everywhere.
The apparitions laugh and cry.

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What should I, poor devil, do?
Become loyal?

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Hold on to Saxon moderateness?
If only I could sort it out!

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Engels to the theology students 
Wilhelm & Friedrich Greber.

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I occupy myself a lot with philosophy & critical theology

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Not being able to doubt, you say
is freedom of spirit?

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No, it is the greatest spiritual slavery. 

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Whe one becomes 18, one should 
either read everything without thinking

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Or start to doubt our Wuppertal' beliefs

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Who gives us the right to blindly believe the Bible?

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just because our parents say so?

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Man is free! Is born free!

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In March 1839, in Telegraph fur Deutchland was published

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The article"Letter from the Wuppertal".
Its author was the 18 year old Friedrich Engels.

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Terrible poverty prevails among the lower classes

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in Elberfeld alone,

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out of 2,500 children of school age

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1,200 are deprived of education
and grow up in the factories

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The wealthy manufacturers
have a flexible conscience,

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Causing the death of
1 child more or 1 less

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does no pietist’s soul doom to hell,

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especially if it visits church twice a day

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It seems like the article
caused quit a stir!

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This scene is from Barmen.

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I urge you to tel no one 
I wrote the article, understood!?

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Your Friedrich Engels

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I add several strokes of my quill
showing its facility and speed.

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Here you see my hammock occupied
by my person smoking a cigar.

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It would be boring after dinner to throw oneself 
at ones desk when one is such a lazy person

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By the way, remind mother to send me 
the works of Goethe. I really need them.

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It is so hot today that,
despite a head cold,
I want to take a swim in the Weser.

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Recently I swam across the Weser
4 times in a row.

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Hardly anybody in Bremen
could compete with me.

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Besides, every Sunday
I occupy myself with horseback riding.

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Oh damn! I just heard 
another 500 boxes of sugar have been sold.

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Sugar...500 boxes...

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Well, let's get back to the fine arts.

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I want to draw you the
haircuts young gentlemen here have.

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These guys look like calves,
I'll be damned!

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Here's my neighbour, Georg.

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in english, George.
The first dandy in Hamburg.

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Combine both drawings...

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Add a skinny torso 

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and long legs...

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And you'll have a full picture of this rascal.

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He's inexhaustible
in distasteful and boring ideas.

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The idler has already been guilty of
at least 20 hours of wearing me out.

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A genius of the latest fashion.
A fool of the latest fashion.

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He who finds just letters and words
in heaps of writings is not a wise man.

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The meanings will remain foggy to him,
even with his head full of phrases.

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Our union caused many a king to be afraid

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Monarchs saw in horror 
how German's youth stood together.

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When I see the Prussian coat of arms
the spirit of freedoms overtakes me.

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This Prussian King Wilhelm III, "the Just",
I hate him! I hate him until death!

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There is no time with more crimes of kings
than the years from 1816 to 1830.

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Almost every monarch
deserved capital punishment.

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Devote Charles X...

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Malicious Ferdinand VII of Spain.

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Franz of Austria.

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Patricide Alexandr of Russia &
his evenly guilty brother Nikolay.

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From that monarch I expect good only,
who's getting his ears boxed by his people

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and whose windows are shattered by revolution!

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Dear Maria, singing and composing 
are kept in steady practice.

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I've taken up writing a new choral.

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There's no accompaniment yet. It's possible I will rewrite it here and there.

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This winter I want to take up dance lessons
in order to get some gracefulness to my legs.

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Besides, we have lessons in fencing now.
You can see me handling the sword here.

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I fence passionately now
and soon will cut you everyone in half.

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Recently the tenth anniversary of the
French July Revolution was celebrated.

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A storm is approaching us from France.

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Its echo rises in the depths of our nation.

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Thrones are shaking like boats in a storm 
and the kingly scepter is trembling.

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Especially to you,Ernst August, 
I turn my eyes with a heart in anger.

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Do tell, are you resting as safely 
on your golden throne
as me in my swaying boat.

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I've grown myself a moustache these days and

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The Philistines* just can't be stunned enough
*(who had shaved faces)

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that I have the nerve, unshaven like that, 
to show up in good society 

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Yet, the ladies are exalted.

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Some fools here founded a club
where they hold discourses.

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The gents are incapable of developing
their thoughts logically even for three seconds.

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It's enough to ask them some innocent questions
and they splendidly contradict themselves.

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By the way, I too can preach,
even without preparations.

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Oh you, political patsies!
Oh you, heroes!

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The tide of time will flood your idyllic economy

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You will be standing like rams before a gateway then...

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Dear Greber, I confess I don't have
the desire for continuing our devout disputes.

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We have ceased to understand each other.
I am on a direct route to Hegelism now.

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I study Hegel's Philosophy of history.
A magnificent work!

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His titanic ideas take my with terrible force.
I am...

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Damn...as soon as I sit down with the book,
the fat is in the fire...

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“Your most respectful and obedient”, 

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these were the last words I wrote
in a business letter, as I finished
my work at the office today

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the appalling bad weather almost brings me to despair

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Thank God that I now 
can leave this dreary hole

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where there is nothing to do but 
fence, eat, drink, sleep and drudge.
Your Friedrich.

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In autumn of 1841 Engels departs
to Berlin to serve in the army.

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At the same time he attends
Berlin University as an un-enrolled student.

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Dear Maria, 
here you see me in uniform,

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as I very romantic and picturesque, 

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but strictly against regulations,
have put on my uniform coat?

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My uniform is most impressive
and I'm worthy to be put on show.

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I hardly know what to write you

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That I was on parade drill this morning
from 8 till half past 11?

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That I during this got a very stiff
telling-off from the Lieutenant-Colonel

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Also I let myself being growled
and shouted at by my Captain

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and think to myself:
who cares, and cock a snook at him.

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By the way, it's time for me to go.
Sincerely, Your brother Friedrich.
Berlin, Doroteinstrasse 56.

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From an 1842 article by Engels "Diary of a guest Student"

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Berlin University enjoys
the reputation of standing in

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the mainstream of contemporary thought
and of having made itself
this arena of intellectual battles.

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Dear Maria, This tender little flower I hope,
compensate for the long time which,
I have kept you waiting.

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Recently I shocked the poet Ruckert at University.

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During his lecture I sat right in front of him

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He looked at my shiny buttons
for so long that he lost his train of thought.

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Engels to his publisher Arnold Ruge.

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Enclosed please find an article
for the [Deutsche] Jahrbücher.

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I have put the Dante thing
to one side for the time being.

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Dear Maria!

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You will certainly not have heard yet
that Herr Liszt has been here
I'm sending you his portrait.

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there are pictures of the great, charming,
heavenly, genial, divine Liszt in every house.

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The ladies
were so besotted by him, 

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that there was a fight for possession
of a glove he had dropped.

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the tea which the
great Liszt had left in a cup

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was poured by the Countess Schlippenbach 
into her Eau-de-Cologne bottle.
She had it sealed 

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and is keeping it since like a holy relic.

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The young ladies fought over him
but he snubbed them frightfully,

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and preferred to go and drink
champagne with a couple of students.
All the best, your brother Friedrich

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Engels to Doctor Ruge.

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You ask me why didn't I send you my
article "Shelling and Revelation"?

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I had in mind to put out
a pamphlet against him.

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"Schelling, the philosopher in Christ"
is also from my pen.

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the 22 year old Engels participated

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in a stormy polemic at the Berlin University ,

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around Hegelian dialectics.

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It's greatest opposer was the philosopher F.W. Schelling.

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Engels sharply took a stand against Schelling 
taking the lead of the young Hegelians opposition,

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(Continuing letter to Arnold Ruge)

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...Besides this, I am not a Doctor.
and cannot ever become one.

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I am only a merchant
and a Royal Prussian artillerist

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so kindly spare me that title.

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Engels to his sister Marie.

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Today I can tell you the glad news

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we probably will not go on parade tomorrow

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His Majesty, the King has
condescended to leave for Potsdam.

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All of which suits me very well.

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Oh yes, I own a dog now.

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It’s a handsome young spaniel, and quite crazy

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Nevertheless, I have taught him one thing.
When I say to him "That's an aristocrat!”

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he goes wild with rage toward the one 
I pointed out and growls hideously.

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To Doctor Ruge

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This time I write you to announce
that I won't be sending you anything anymore.

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I have decided to abandon 
all literary work for a while.

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I have learned enough to form my own viewpoint
and, when necessary, to defend it,

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but not enough for it to work
with success and in the proper way.

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my literary activities have so far been experiments

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from the outcome of which, I

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would be able to learn whether
my natural capacities would allow me

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to participate actively in the movement of the century.

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In November 1842
Engels departs to Manchester.

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Here a new period in his life begins.

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In the struggling of the proletariat

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he recognized the only force

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that solely was capable of
changing the world.

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[October, 1844.]

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Dear Marx...

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Volume 2, Marx-Engels works, English translation