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Edward Aveling | |
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| Born | Edward Bibbins Aveling 29 November 1849 London, England |
| Died | 2 August 1898 (aged 48) Battersea, London, England |
| Other names | E.D., Alec Nelson, T.R.Ernest, Cover-Point, The Cockney Sportsman |
| Education | University College London |
| Occupation(s) | Comparative anatomist, socialist writer, editor, dramatist, translator of Marx's Capital; botanist, physiologist, zoologist |
| Spouses | Isabel Campbell Frank
(m. 1872; died 1892)Eva Frye (m. 1897) |
| Partner | Eleanor Marx |
Edward Bibbins Aveling (29 November 1849 – 2 August 1898) was an English comparative anatomist and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution, atheism and socialism.[1] He was also a playwright and actor.
Aveling was the author of numerous scientific books and political pamphlets; he is perhaps best known for his popular work The Student's Darwin (1881); he also translated Ernst Haeckel's Gesammelte populäre Vorträge, as The Pedigree of Man (1883); the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital, and Friedrich Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. He was elected vice-president of the National Secular Society in 1880, he was a member of the Democratic Federation and then a member of the executive council of the Social Democratic Federation and was a founding member of the Socialist League and the Independent Labour Party. During the imprisonment of George William Foote for blasphemy he was interim editor for The Freethinker and Progress. A monthly magazine of advanced thought. With William Morris he was the sub-editor of The Commonweal. He was an organizer of the mass movement of the unskilled workers and the unemployed in the late 1880s unto the early 1890s and a delegate to the International Socialist Workers' Congress of 1889. For fourteen years he was the partner of Eleanor Marx, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, and co-authored many works with her.
- ^ "I am an evolutionist, and as an evolutionist I have come to the conclusion that Christianity is a bane and not a blessing. Equally, as an evolutionist, I have come to the conclusion that the present system of production – the capitalistic system of production – is a bane and not a blessing to the world at large. It is only a blessing to a comparatively few people. It is a distinct evil to anybody but that comparatively few. I am an Evolutionist, an Atheist, and a Socialist." Edward Aveling, The Curse of Capital (London: Freethought Publishing, 1884)
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