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Engels was quite brilliant in his own analysis and writing by himself. It's why Marx sought him out. It's just Marx was well Marx. It's a big intellectual shadow to be under. Like Lenin and Stalin from a theory perspective, Stalin is good at writing and explaining complicated topics but Lenin is Lenin.

And Marx and Engels were pretty much in complete agreement, I forgot the line but there's one letter from Marx which is like unless specified assume Engels and I both think this in all my writing. And a lot of Marx's writing surviving is because of Engel, he pretty much wrote Capital Vol 2 and Vol 3 from Marx's notes (Brandon Sanderson style) and published a few other books of Marx's before and after his death.

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I love that letter that goes like

"Fred, I need another 50 quid for rent.

Sincerely, Karl"

EDIT:

I think Engels wrote a lot of good stuff, but he was essentially a bourgeois class traitor (Marx's family were well-off, but they worked. Engels' were literally just factory owners), which I dare suggest meant his writing, though totally sound, struggled to be as relatable and punchy without Marx's influence. Marx had a raw, powerful, and vaguely intimate way with words that I think simply captured people's minds and attentions better.

Mostly I am just prompted to show love for our Engels emojis

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Engels wrote better introductory texts that are more readable (Principles of Communism, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific; Marx did deeper analysis.

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