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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.
They had met a few times before, but it was when Marx had read "The Condition of the Working Class in England" by Engels, that they became lifelong friends.
The Condition of the Working Class in England is actually a stunning and brilliant piece of epidemiological work, it's hard to believe it was published before John Snow (London Cholera map guy) was even a doctor