Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are widely credited with founding modern communist ideology, notably through their 1848 publication The Communist Manifesto. Some sources also note that Victor d’Hupay, an 18th-century French aristocrat, was among the first to use the term “communism” to describe societies where property is shared, but Marx and Engels are considered the primary theorists who shaped the ideology into a global political force.
The last name Engels is recognized as a Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname, often used as an artificial or ornamental name derived from the German word Engel, meaning “angel.”
Karl Marx was ethnically Jewish but was not religiously Jewish
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