Engels was like the ORIGINAL Trust Fund Kid.
Marx also grew up as a wealthy, privileged child whose father was a rich lawyer descended from a long line of prominent rabbis and whose mother was a member of the Prussian aristocracy. He then married himself into a wealthy line of Belgian aristocrats - so he was in no way living in poverty as he struggled in his "mighty" task of bettering mankind via the communist struggle (as they tell us). And yes, "bettering mankind" is a bit of sarcasm there.
Marx's wife,Jenny von Westphalen"born in Salzwedel to a prominent family of the Prussian aristocracy." - wikipedia.com
Marx's mother, Henrietta PressburgNote how her genealogy is hidden at Ancestry.com even though as a member of the aristocracy her family history is well known and well documented. I wonder why that is? My link to her at Wikitree.com lays out her and through her, Karl's, real roots in the European aristocracy.
Marx's grandmother Nanette Barent-Cohenalso a member of the aristocracy, was the first cousin of Henriette Barent-Cohen who married Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Yes, Karl Marx, in addition to being a member of the European aristocracy, is related to those Rothschilds.
The "story" told of Marx toiling in great poverty to write "The Communist Manifesto" is just a lie. A lie that the billionaire/trillionaire globalists tell about all of their false fronts that are tasked with infiltrating and destroying competing social groups. In this case Marx formalized and popularized the communist philosophy to redirect the working classes away from the emerging
European republicanism movements (based on a philosophy of natural law and the rights of man) and into an easily controlled, philosophically unsound movement. Communism, as a totalitarian form of government, is easily controlled once the leaders of the Party are bought off or corrupted and blackmailed into submission.
Note: the globalists' "Communism Project" went off the rails during the Russian Bolshevik revolution when their two agents, Lenin and Trotsky, feuded throughout the revolution instead of working together as they were directed. Lenin won the battle with Trotsky but Lenin's ill health and early death allowed Stalin (who was not controlled by the globalists) to take over the revolutionary government and keep it out of the control of the globalists.