He Got Allowance From His Friend Friedrich Engels

On the way to Manchester in 1842, Friedrich Engels stopped by the office of the Rheinische Zeitung, where he first encountered Karl Marx. On August 28, 1844, they reconnected at Café de la Régence in Paris and soon grew close. They stayed friends their entire lives. Engels was the rich son of a cotton textile producer in Germany. He led two separate lives, one as a communist by night and a cotton tycoon by day. Marx received funding from Engels to disseminate their revolutionary theories. Marx actually endured poverty for the majority of his adult life, and Engels supported him financially for almost 40 years. He routinely sent Marx up to £50 every year, which is around $7,500 today. This accounted for nearly a third of his parents' annual allowance. Engels collaborated on the landmark Communist Manifesto and gave Marx assistance for his well-known book Das Kapital.

Engels made the sacrifice of Marx during his lifetime in order to support his family both materially and spiritually. Marx would scarcely have the resources to finish his extensive writings without Engels' unwavering assistance. Marx also received a lot of scientific assistance from Engels. Before the first volume of Capital was published, Engels received a sincere request from Marx to be included as a co-author, but Engels politely declined. Even in the works that the two of them jointly wrote, Engels always humbly acknowledges that Mr. Marx's companion is solely responsible for the works' primary concepts.