Casa Robino

Marx and Engels were a queer team to work so long and well together. Their beginnings had little in common. Marx was a poor German Jew; Engels was the promising son and heir of well-to-do textile manufacturers. His family were deeply pained when he became an adolescent pinko; as his political shade deepened to red their annoyance turned to alarm. And from their point of view, the strangest thing about Friedrich was that he was a good business man. He made such a suc cess of the English mill at Manchester that he was eventually made a partner, in spite of his regrettable politics. But. from the time he met Marx, Engels had no real interest in anything but the always-imminent Revolution. He worked hard and well to make money, because he had to live and because Marx needed his financial support, and when he had made enough he quit.