002 IDEAL FRIENDSHIP OF KARL MARX AND ENGELS

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels the authors of the Communist Manifesto, were good friends. Though somewhat a cliche owing to overuse in English, the proverb, "A friend in need is a friend indeed", literally holds good in the friendship of Marx and Angels. Here is a link to their abridged biography:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/riazanov/works/1927-ma/ch09.htm. There are some adverse reports about the friendship of Marx and Angeles on the inter-net. This area needs greater analysis and search.

David Riazanov's
KARL MARX and FREDERICK ENGELS
An Introduction to Their Lives and Work

I quote from it:

"...He (Engels) had also been aiding Marx for whom the first years of the International were again years of bitter poverty. Were it not for the help he obtained from Engels and the small inheritance which was left to him by his old friend, Wilhelm Wolff, to whom he had dedicated his Capital, Marx would hardly have been able to overcome penury and he surely would have had no time to prepare his monumental work for publication. ... "

INTERPRETATION, DEDUCTIONS

Not that ALL friends can financially aid their friends each and everytime there was penury or crises, even an occasional helping hand will be of considerable relief. Hence, I view Engels as humane and noble, notwithstanding his other traits.