Marx Engels Selected Works Volume - 20

* The friendship and division of labor between Marx and Engels, which is included in the twentieth volume of the Marx-Engels Selections, are worth a deep look. The creation of a great theory is by no means an easy task. When one is engaged in such a task, it is a rare and rare opportunity to find a strange companion. Even if we take the whole of human history as we know it, it is impossible to show such a friendship as an example. Engels provided Marx with a creative and debating companionship that he desperately needed for about forty years. This was Engels' greatest merit. It was a rare relationship. Engels protected Marx from his critics. He stood by his friend and his family in times of poverty, illness, and old age. He took on and continued the unfinished tasks. * As important as the creation of a theory is, politicizing it is also important and difficult. In world history, many rare and great ideas have disappeared without being politicized and have remained mere paper. Engels was not the one who simply popularized Marx. He politicized his theories. He also tried to reveal their concomitant political dimensions. Marx's writings and initiatives were mostly an analysis of the contemporary social system, capitalism.