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Actually, Engels was well ahead of Marx (yet again) in connecting the
destruction and damage to the environment that industrialisation was
causing. While still living in his home town of Barmen (now Wuppertal),
he wrote several diary notes about the inequality of rich and poor, the
pious hypocrisy of the church preachers and also the pollution of the
rivers.
Just 18 years old, he writes: “the two towns of Elberfeld and Barmen,
which stretch along the valley for a distance of nearly three hours’
travel. The purple waves of the narrow river flow sometimes swiftly,
sometimes sluggishly between smoky factory buildings and yarn-strewn
bleaching-yards. Its bright red colour, however, is due not to some
bloody battle, for the fighting here is waged only by theological pens
and garrulous old women, usually over trifles, nor to shame for men’s
actions, although there is indeed enough cause for that, but simply and
solely to the numerous dye-works using Turkey red. Coming from
Düsseldorf, one enters the sacred region at Sonnborn; the muddy Wupper
flows slowly by and, compared with the Rhine just left behind, its
miserable appearance is very disappointing.”
Barmen in 1913
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