What if Fredrich Engels had lived longer?

Engels died in 1895 at the age of 74. It would have been technically possible he could have lived long enough to be around for the 1917 Russian revolution (he would have been 97).

How would the first widespread communist revolution been affected with one of the co-founders of Marxism itself still alive at the time?
 
If Engels had opposed the Bolshevik coup, Lenin would just say he was senile: "Of course he made great contributions in his time, but so did Plekhanov..."
 
How would the first widespread communist revolution been affected with one of the co-founders of Marxism itself still alive at the time?

Where would he live, anyway? He died in London, but I don't think he would be very welcome anymore in England during WWI as a person of German origin. In times of war, I doubt he would be able to contact the Bolsheviks.

That's not considering that the survival of such an important person would alter history and maybe avoid (our version of) WWI. And the rise of Lenin might be faster or slower too, or not happen at all.
 
"My point is not to decide what the "true" Marxist position on the issues confronting the world socialist movement in the first two decades of the twentieth century would be. My point is that nobody--not even a surviving Marx!--could *authoritatively* give an answer to them. An elderly Marx's (or more likely Engels') opinion of the implications of *The Communist Manifesto* and *Capital* for the early twentieth century would simply be one man's opinion--even if that one man was the co-founder of Scientific Socialism. Nobody else would be *bound* to accept it, and those who disagreed with whatever position a nonagenarian Marx or Engels took would continue to disagree." https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...russian-revolution.319002/page-2#post-9303018
 
That's not considering that the survival of such an important person would alter history and maybe avoid (our version of) WWI. And the rise of Lenin might be faster or slower too, or not happen at all.
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Neither Marx or Engels were particularly important people outside a few political cults within the socialist movement prior to 1917. The became so at the point when a major world power espoused their beliefs. Had Vladimir Ulyanov et al been enthusiasts for Prudhon or Sorel, Marx and Engels would have become obscure footnotes only recognisable to a historian of political thought.
 
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