So that excuses his stance on abolishing the family, religion and private property?
Child labor was steadily decreasing long before Marx showed up in London. Engels’ own father owned textile mills, and that’s how Engels got his money, which he was constantly forking out to Marx who couldn’t take care of his own kids.
Your point well taken by me. Of course I do not excuse him for those views. I just have some first hand accounts of the desperate misery of the London poor. My own people came to the East-End of London in 1844. They were not native Irish, but came from County Cork.
It is hard for even a rational human being to think straight in some conditions. Today many people would just do desperate things to survive under those conditions.
(Excuse the sermon .....chuckle)